[1]The specific area about which the early-day Indians first used the
term that is now translated as “Yellowstone” is unknown. The name
may have referred to the yellowish rocks that line the banks of the
Yellowstone River near its confluence with the Missouri River in
eastern Montana and western North Dakota. However, in the opinion of
H. M. Chittenden, who studied the question in considerable detail,
there is little doubt that the name was taken from the striking
yellow-hued walls of the gorge now known as the Grand Canyon of the
Yellowstone.
_Selected Additional Reading_
Allen, E. T., and Day, A. L., 1935, Hot springs of the Yellowstone
National Park: Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 466, 525
pages.
Boyd, F. R., 1961, Welded tuffs and flows in the rhyolite plateau of
Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
volume 72, number 3, pages 387-426.
Christiansen, R. L., and Blank, H. R., Jr., 1972, Volcanic stratigraphy
of the Quaternary rhyolite plateau in Yellowstone National Park: U.S.
Geological Survey, Professional Paper 729-B (in press).
Dorf, Erling, 1960, Tertiary fossil forests of Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming, _in_ West Yellowstone—Earthquake area, Billings
Geological Society Guidebook 11th Annual Field Conference, 1960: pages
253-260.
Hague, Arnold, Iddings, J. P., Weed, W. H., Walcott, C. D., Girty, G.
H., Stanton, T. W., and Knowlton, F. H., 1899, Geology of the
Yellowstone National Park: U.S. Geological Survey Monograph 32, part 2,
893 pages and atlas of 27 sheets folio.
Hague, Arnold, Weed, W. H., and Iddings, J. P., 1896, Description of the
Yellowstone National Park quadrangle [Wyoming]: U.S. Geological Survey
Geologic Atlas, Folio 30.
Hayden, F. V., 1872, Preliminary report of the United States Geological
Survey of Montana and portions of adjacent Territories, being a fifth
annual report of progress—Part I: Washington, U.S. Government Printing
Office, pages 13-204.
Howard, A. D., 1937, History of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone:
Geological Society of America Special Paper 6, 159 pages.
Marler, G. D., 1969, The story of Old Faithful: Yellowstone Library and
Museum Association, 49 pages.
Richmond, G. M., Pierce, K. L., and Waldrop, H. A., 1972, Surficial
geologic map of Yellowstone National Park: U.S. Geological Survey
Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-710 (in press).
Ruppel, E. T., 1972, Geology of pre-Tertiary rocks in the northern part
of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey
Professional Paper 729-A (in press).
Smedes, H. W., and Prostka, H. J., 1972, Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup in
the Yellowstone National Park region: U.S. Geological Survey
Professional Paper 729-C (in press).
Smith, R. L., 1960, Ash flows: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
volume 71, number 6, pages 795-841.
U.S. Geological Survey, 1964, The Hebgen Lake, Montana, earthquake of
August 17, 1959: US Geological Survey Professional Paper 435, 242 pages.
U.S. Geological Survey, 1972, Geologic map of Yellowstone National Park:
U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-711
(in press).
White, D. E., 1967, Some principles of geyser activity, mainly from
Steamboat Springs, Nevada: American Journal of Science, volume 265,
number 8, pages 641-684.
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