 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1908 - 762 pages
...the notice of American geologists. " ' The geological provinces of the Great Basin,' remarks Clarence King, has suffered two, different types of dynamic action : one in which the chief factor was evidently tangential compression, which resulted in contraction and plication, presumably in post-Jurassic... | |
 | William Morris Davis - Geology - 1901 - 112 pages
...folds, riven in later time by a vast series of vertical displacements. . . . The Great basin . . . has suffered two different types of dynamic action:...strictly vertical action, presumably within the Tertiary" (pp. 735, 744). Button makes a similar statement : " These [Basin range] flexures are not ... associated... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1901 - 658 pages
...axes." He concluded thus : § "The geological province of the Great basin, therefore, is one which has suffered two different types of dynamic action...resulted in contraction and plication, presumably * Ufolo^iiial Kxplorution.4 of Um Fortieth PurrtlU-l, vol JJl«7il, p. 451. f Geology of the Eastern... | |
 | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology - 1903 - 388 pages
...folds, riven in later time by a vast series of vertical displacements. . . . The Great basin . . . has suffered two different types of dynamic action...strictly vertical action, presumably within the Tertiary " (pp. 735, 744). Dutton makes a similar statement : " These [Basin range] flexures are not . . . associated... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1904 - 790 pages
...lateral compression. He says : § "The geological province of the Great basin, therefore, is one which has suffered two different types of dynamic action...post-Jurassic time ; the other, of strictly vertical action, presumahly within the Tertiary, in which there are few evidences or traces of tangential compression."... | |
 | T. J. J. See - Earthquakes - 1907 - 340 pages
...the notice of American geologists. " ' The geological provinces of the Great Basin,' remarks Clarence King, has suffered two different types of dynamic action: one in which the chief factor was evidently tangential compression, which resulted in contraction and plication, presumably in post-Jurassic... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1908 - 762 pages
...the notice of American geologists. " ' The geological provinces of the Great Basin,' remarks Clarence King, has suffered two different types of dynamic action : one in which the chief factor was evidently tangential compression, which resulted in contraction and plication, presumably in post-Jurassic... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Jackson See - Earth - 1908 - 150 pages
...notice of American geologists. • " ' The geological provinces of the Great Basin,' remarks Clarence King, has suffered two different types of dynamic action : one in which the chief factor was evidently tangential compression, which resulted in contraction and plication, presumably in post-Jurassic... | |
 | Alfred Harker - Igneous rocks - 1909 - 414 pages
...plateau region of the Great Basin, bounded and intersected by enormous faults. This, as King2 remarks, "has suffered two different types of dynamic action...few evidences or traces of tangential compression." The topographic features of the country — notably the great canons — prove that, in its later part... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1904 - 776 pages
...lateral compression. He says: § "The geological province of the Great basin, therefore, is one which has suffered two different types of dynamic action:...few evidences or traces of tangential compression." Russell and other later workers also recognized these two types of structure in the Great basin—the... | |
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The geological province of the Great basin, therefore, is one which has suffered two different types of dynamic action: one, in which the chief factor evidently was tangential compression, which resulted in contraction and plication, presumably in post-Jurassic... 
