Upper Falls on the Yellowstone River. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1970.
Dates
Date Taken
1970
Summary
Album caption and index card: Upper Falls on the Yellowstone River. The brink of the falls marks the contact between dense, resistant rhyolite lava (which forms the massive cliff) and more easily eroded rhyolite lava containing a high proportion of volcanic glass immediately downstream. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1970. Published as Figure 40-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1347. 1971.
Summary
Album caption and index card: Upper Falls on the Yellowstone River. The brink of the falls marks the contact between dense, resistant rhyolite lava (which forms the massive cliff) and more easily eroded rhyolite lava containing a high proportion of volcanic glass immediately downstream. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1970.
Published as Figure 40-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1347. 1971.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Stacy, J.R. Collection.
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