by John McPhee
geophysics: data-gathering techniques and laboratory geology magnetic field measurements methods of venting heat and Moho and oil exploration and Sierra batholith see also hot spots
geopoetry
George Washington Bridge site in Mississippian period site in Silurian period
geosynclines vs. plate tectonics
geothermal energy: California Coast Range power stations radioactive water Wyoming well-drilling projects Yellowstone geysers
Germany: scientific drilling in Triassic period
Gettysburg battlefields: creation of
Gilbert, G. K.
glacial drift: defined
glacial erratics: in Brooklyn defined in Indiana
Glacial Grooves State Memorial, Ohio
Glacial Lake Agassiz
Glacial Lake Chicago
Glacial Lake Hackensack
Glacial Lake Iroquois
Glacial Lake Maumee
Glacial Lake Passaic
Glacial Lake Sciota
glaciation, see alpine glaciers; continental glaciation
Glacier Peak, Washington
glaciers: Agassiz study of cirque future glaciation modern see also alpine glaciers; continental glaciation
global tectonics, see plate tectonics
Glomar Challenger
gneiss: defined in New York City in Precambrian Wyoming
Golconda, Nevada: and Sonomia suture
Golconda Thrust
gold: in California Coast Ranges Deffeyes on hydrothermal deposits electrum and glaciation sources in Sierra Nevada U.S. production Yukon drainage
Golden Gate Bridge: and earthquakes site
golden spike, Utah
gold mining: coyote shafts in history hydraulic in Indiana methods see also California gold rush
golf courses near Delaware Water Gap
Gondwanaland
Good, J. M.
Goodacre, Alan
Gosiute, Lake
Goulding, Piercewell
Grace, Bill
Grand Canyon, Arizona: appearance of red rock and Colorado River Powell trip through unconformities in
Grand Teton, Wyoming see also Teton Range, Wyoming
Granger, Walter
granite: along San Andreas Fault vs. granodiorite Hutton’s view of in New Hampshire in ocean crust as part of family of similar rocks pink, Wyoming Precambrian vs. rhyolite in Sierra Nevada in Toano Range and wind zircons in
Granite Mountains, Wyoming
granodiorite vs. andesite vs. granite in Sierra Nevada see also granite
graphite: and diamonds
gravity fields: gathering geophysical data
Grayback Mountain, Utah: basalt flows
Great Basin: vs. Basin and Range Capt. Stansbury in continental crust in evaporation vs. precipitation in mountain ranges in Pleistocene glaciation as site of future western seaway
Great Central Valley, California: common river delta creation of described earthquakes in flatness of fold-and-thrust belt geologic history gradual rise home of Eldridge Moores I-80 in impact of hydraulic mining Moores’ backyard geologic column and reach of San Andreas family of faults rice-field contours river system of soil of in Triassic period
Great Divide Basin, Wyoming
Great Flood, see Noah’s Flood
Great Lakes: age of creation of
Great Meteor (oceanographic vessel)
Great Meteor Seamount history as hot spot
Great Piece Meadows, New Jersey
Great Plains: and gangplank western edge see also midcontinent
Great Salt Lake: age of and brine flies chemistry of floating in oolites railroad causeway across as remnant of Lake Bonneville rivers feeding
Great Salt Lake Desert: and emigrants
Great Sierra Nevada Unconformity
Great Valley of the Appalachians
Greece: Athens McPhee and Moores in Moores in Macedonia Mt. Olympus and ophiolites see also Cyprus; Macedonia
Greenland: amount of ice and Canada
Green River area, Wyoming age of river I-80 roadcuts and Jim Bridger power plant tunnel
Green River Basin, Wyoming: La Barge oil field topographical vs. structural
Green Valley Fault
Grenville Orogeny
griffins
Griggs, David
Gros Ventre River, Wyoming
Guiana Shield
Gutenberg, Beno
guyots
Hackensack, Lake
Hackensack Valley, New Jersey: ancient contemporary viewing with Deffeyes
Hadean Eon
Hagen, Water
Hailey, Wyoming
Hall, James as founder of experimental geology and geosynclinal cycle view of James Hutton
Halley, Edmund
Hamilton, Warren
Hammer Creek Conglomerate
Hanna Basin, Wyoming
Hares, Charles J.
Harlech Dome
Harris, Anita: biography of at Brooklyn College described earthquake experience employed by United States Geological Survey interest in conodonts and Jack Epstein map-editing job New York background reputation as geologist scientific papers of views on plate tectonics
Harris, Leonard interest in conodonts
Hastings, Lansford
Hatteras Abyssal Plain
Hawaii: as hot spot and Pacific Plate shield volcanoes
Hawaiian Seamounts
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayden, F. V.
Hayward, California as type locality
Hayward Fault map of
Healdsburg Fault
Hearst, George
heartland, see midcontinent
heat, methods of venting
Hebgen Lake, Montana
Heezen, Bruce
Helikian time
Herodotus
Hess, Harry in Macedonia and ophiolites
Hickory Run State Park
highways: first built in New World Lincoln Highway Nimitz Freeway significance of roadcuts to geologists St. Helena Highway see also Interstate
Himalaya: formation of marine limestone in and ophiolites and plate tectonics
Hindu fable
Histoire Naturelle
Hoar, Ebenezer
hogbacks
hole: defined see also Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sherlock: as first forensic geologist
Holocene epoch: characteristics of vs. Pleistocene epoch
Holy Toledo cut
Homestake Mining Company
Hook Mountain, New Jersey
Hopkins, Mark
horn silver
horseback guesses
horses, Eocene
Hosgri Fault
hot spots: Ascension Island as Bermuda as blind Cape Verde Islands as Crozet Hot Spot defined Great Meteor Hot Spot Hawaii as Iceland as Kerguelen Hot Spot Labrador Hot Spot as method of venting heat midcontinent Mt. Etna as number of parallel tracks of perforations and plates Raton, New Mexico, as and seamounts shooting-star analogy St. Helena Island as study of time span of Tristan da Cunha Hot Spot Yellowstone as see also seamounts
hot springs: in Basin and Range Calistoga, California dead and metal deposits in Pleasant Valley see also hydrothermal activity
Houston, Texas: as geologic influence topography of
Hsü, Kenneth Jingwha
Hubbert, M. King
Hudson, Henry
Hudson Bay
Hudson River, New York: creation of in Triassic period
Hudson River School
Humboldt, Alexander von
Humboldt Range, Nevada
Humboldt River, Nevada: in Carlin Canyon described
Humboldt Sink, Nevada and Lake Lahontan
Hume, David
Huntington, Collis P.
Hutton, James: background of finds angular unconformities as founder of modern geology ideas about ice interest in earth’s processes response to his insights sense of geologi
c time Theory of the Earth and uniformitarianism as writer
Huxley, Thomas Henry: view of Darwin’s The Origin of Species
hydraulic mining as catastrophic event as form of erosion impact of tailings on Great Central Valley start of
hydrochloric acid: and carbonate rocks
hydrothermal activity: and metal deposits
Iacovini, Peggy
Iapetus Ocean
Iceland: as hot spot
ice sheets, see continental glaciation; Wisconsinan ice sheet
Idaho: formation of Snake River Plain stratovolcanoes
igneous rock: enumerated in Franciscan mélange by Andrew Lawson granodiorite in church vs. granite the rest of the week language of magmatic juices, chemically differentiating mystery of 1450 plutons Palisades Sill as example of homogeneous magma resulting in multiple expressions of rock study of relationship to plate tectonics see also andesite; basalt; diabase; gabbro; granite; lava flows; magma; rhyolite; volcanism
Illinois: impact of glaciation in Ordovician period in Pennsylvanian period in Precambrian time in Silurian period in Triassic period
Illinois Basin
illite
Imamura, Akitsune
inactive faults
Independence Valley, Nevada
index fossils ammonites shown young David Love by geologists see also conodonts
India: and Antarctica collision with Asia in Cretaceous period Deccan Plateau flood basalts and Madagascar map of spread-apart coast with Madagascar movement of and plate tectonics and polar-wander issue in Triassic period
Indiana: gold mining in on I-80 impact of glaciation Indiana Dunes Lake James lakes in map of northeastern corner of in Ordovician period in Pennsylvanian period in Silurian period in Triassic period
Indian Ocean: hot spots
Indians: Cheyenne Lenape Minsi Paiute Shoshoni Sioux Yalesumni
Indo-Australian Plate
Indonesia
Inness, George
inselberge
Interstate 80: California physiographic cross section Cambrian physiographic time line and Cheyenne Belt contemporary physiographic time line crossing Midcontinent Rift Deffeyes’ view at Delaware Water Gap and emigrant wagon trail Eocene physiographic time line exotic terranes near and gangplank highest point impact of wind maintenance of Mississippian physiographic time line Ordovician physiographic time line Pennsylvanian physiographic time line potential as geological experience Precambrian physiographic time line Silurian physiographic time line Triassic physiographic time line tunnels in Wyoming see also roadcuts
ion-exchange chromatography
Iowa: drilling into in Ordovician period in Pennsylvanian period in Precambrian time in Triassic period
Iran
iridium
iron: oxidation of Precambrian origins role in determining rock age see also paleomagnetism
living, Ted
island arcs: accretion tectonics in Archean Eon Choco Terrane Coast Range Ophiolite collisions with western North America and Colorado and formation of Rocky Mountains in Jurassic period last midcontinent dockings list of map illustrating accretion and ophiolitic emplacement orange-cut analogy and plate tectonics Precambrian in Proterozoic Eon role in assembling of California Smartville Block Sonomia and subduction zones and Taiwan volcanic origins see also exotic terranes
islands, undiscovered
isostatic adjustment
isotopes, radioactive see also radiometric dating
Italy: geologic history and ophiolites
Jackson, David
Jackson, William Henry
Jackson Hole, Wyoming 1983 earthquake complexity of landscape described map of in Miocene epoch as movie setting
James, Lake
Japan: earthquake studies as island arc movement toward North America and Pacific Plate
Japan Trench
Java Trench
Jedburgh, Scotland
Jenny Lake, Wyoming
Jersey Valley, Nevada
JOIDES Resolution
Juan de Fuca Plate and accretionary wedges
Judah, Theodore
Jumping-Off Draw, Love Ranch, Wyoming
Juniata sandstone
Jurassic period: characteristics of naming of and Smartville Block
Kalahari Craton
kame-and-kettle topography
Kankakee Arch
Kansas: drilling into elevation of
Keewaytin, Canada: and Great Meteor Hot Spot
Kelleys Island, Ohio
Kelvin, Lord: estimate of age of earth
Kerguelen Hot Spot
kettles: defined in Indiana
Kilauea volcano
Killpecker Creek, Wyoming
kimberlite: characteristics of and craton defined and hot spots pipes as source of diamonds
King, Clarence
Kittatinny Mountain, New Jersey
Kleinspehn, Karen: described at Great Salt Lake study of roadcuts view of rocks as unorganized
klippe: Acropolis as
Knadler Lake, Wyoming
Knight, Samuel H.
Kodiak Island
Krakatoa
Kraus, Mary
Krogh, Thomas E.
Kuhn, Thomas
Kuril Trench
laboratory geology: vs. field geology instruments and tools rock-dating methods at University of Kansas see also black-box geology; radiometric dating
Labrador Hot Spot
La Honda Fault
Lahontan, Lake
Lake, Pearl
lakes: Boundary Waters Area, Minnesota ephemeral nature of formation in Great Basin glacial in Indiana on Laramie Plains and limestone in Teton Range
Lamb, Linda
Lammermuir Hills, Scotland
Lander, Wyoming
landfill: and earthquakes
landmasses: and Old νs. New Geology see also continents; exotic terranes
language, geological argot for Precambrian dates of rocks
Lapworth, Charles
Laramide Orogeny
Laramie, Wyoming David Love in
Laramie Plains, Wyoming
Laramie Range, Wyoming: and age of Laramie River and Cheyenne Belt creation of in Precambrian time
Laramie River, Wyoming age of
Lassen Peak, California
lateritic soil
Laurasia
Lava Creek ash
lava flows: in Basin and Range cooling of basalt in New Jersey origins of and Teton Range see also basalt; magma; volcanism
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Lawson, Andrew names Franciscan mélange names San Andreas Fault views on California earthquakes
Lawson, John Cuthbert
LeConte, Joseph
Lenape Indians and Penn family
Leonardo da Vinci
Le Pichon, Xavier
Liassic time
limestone: Acropolis example in Appalachian region in Basin and Range as building material changing into dolomite and conodonts in highway surface Jurassic Pennsylvanian Permian in Pine Bluffs and Smartville Block as summit of Mt. Everest testing for and tooth decay transforming into marble in Wyoming
Lincoln Highway
Lindgren, Waldemar
Lippincott, Sara
Lipps, Jere
lithosphere: defined see also plate tectonics
Litvak, Herschel
Loma Prieta earthquake fate of reservoirs maximum jump and Nimitz Freeway path of travel in region of restraining bend and San Andreas Fault and San Francisco skyscrapers source of name spread of pressure wave
London, Jack
Longabaugh, Harry
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Long Island, New York: impact of glaciation
Los Angeles Basin, California
Lost Soldier, Wyoming
Love, Allan
Love, Charles
Love, David: as adjunct professor background of and blind men and elephant fable children of college education of described des
cribed by his wife employed by Shell Oil Company employed by United States Geological Survey environmental views home in Laramie horseback guesses initial interest in geology meets and marries Jane Matteson publishes abstract on seismic activity in Yellowstone Park region reputation as geologist studies of Teton Range thousand-mile socks of twice senior author of Wyoming geologic map uranium discoveries view of resource projects
Love, Ethel Waxham: arrives in Rawlins, Wyoming courted by John Love journey to Red Bluff Ranch at Love Ranch as Wyoming schoolteacher
Love, Jane Matteson
Love, John background courts Ethel Waxham
Love, Phoebe
Lovelock, Nevada
Love Ranch cowboys David Love returns to loss of livestock steadings and uranium mining on U.S.G.S. map visitors to
Lowell, James Russell
Lucas, Ormel
Lupton, Charles T.
Lyell, Sir Charles adopts Agassiz’s glaciation theory advances Hutton’s theory and naming of Cenozoic epochs publishes Principles of Geology
Lyman irrigation project
Macedonia: geologic history McPhee with Moores in Moores in and ophiolites
MacGregor, Ian
Madagascar: and Africa and India map of spread-apart coast with India
made ground, see landfill
Madeira: as hot spot
Madison limestone
magma: and batholiths creation of dating of diorite vs. andesite: and formation of Jackson Hole gabbro vs. basalt granite vs. rhyolite magmatic juices, chemically differentiating and Palisades Sill and plates and volcanic necks and zircons see also lava flows; volcanism
magnesium: in dolomite
magnetic fields: determining latitudes gathering geophysical data reversals
magnetic poles
magnetic signatures
magnetite
magnetometers proton-precession
Malpas, John
Manhattan, New York City: building façades Fifth Avenue geology of
Manila Trench
Manlius, Lake
mantle: under basin and range boundary with ocean crust characteristics of example in Macedonia floating of rocks on heat rising from as magma piano-wire analogy and plate tectonics viscosity of
maps, accompanying text: listed
maps, geologic: Composite Magnetic Anomaly Map of the United States creating and field work in magnetic and gravity analysis remapping surface nature of as textbooks on one sheet of paper
marble: in Great Valley of the Appalachians Hutton’s view of in Manhattan Parthenon example transforming dolomite into transforming limestone into see also dolomite; limestone; metamorphic rock