_Geology of_
YELLOWSTONE
A review of the geologic processes and events responsible for the
spectacular natural wonders of the Yellowstone country, commemorating
the 100th anniversary of the oldest and largest of our national parks.
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[Illustration: “_* * * and behold! The whole country beyond was
smoking with vapor from boiling springs, and burning with gases
issuing from small craters, each of which was emitting a sharp,
whistling sound. * * * The general face of the country was smooth
and rolling, being a level plain, dotted with cone-shaped mounds. On
the summit of these mounds were small craters from four to six feet
in diameter. Interspersed among these on the level plain were larger
craters, some of them four to six miles across. Out of these
craters, issued blue flames and molten brimstone._”
Description credited to Joseph Meek, 1829; quotation from page 40 of
the book “The Yellowstone National Park” by Hiram Martin Chittenden
(as edited and published by Richard A. Bartlett, University of
Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1964). Photograph is of Midway
Geyser Basin.]
[Illustration: “_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled_, that the tract of land in the territories of Montana and
Wyoming lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River is hereby
reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the
laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public
park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the
people * * *”
Approved March 1, 1872—signed by:
James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House
Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President of the United States and President of
the Senate
Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States]
_The Geologic Story of_
YELLOWSTONE
NATIONAL PARK
By William R. Keefer
_Illustrated by John R. Stacy_
Based on a planned series of technical reports resulting from
comprehensive geologic studies in Yellowstone National Park by the
author and his colleagues, H. R. Blank, Jr., R. L. Christiansen, R. O.
Fournier, J. D. Love, L. J. P. Muffler, J. D. Obradovich, K. L.
Pierce, H. J. Prostka, G. M. Richmond, Meyer Rubin, E. T. Ruppel, H.
W. Smedes, A. H. Truesdell, H. A. Waldrop, and D. E. White.