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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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Plains near Colorado Springs. 7. The Caldera of Alt. Mazama, five miles indiameter and two thousand feet deep, whichhas been made a National Park and has be-come famous under the name Crater Lake.Numerous outpourings of lava suggest thestructure and history of the ancient volcano. 8. The Standing Stone district near Mon-terey, Tennessee, showing normal subaerialerosion and the production of sink holes inhorizontally disposed beds of limestone andshale. Continuing on the opposite side of the hallare the following models: 9. The Alt. Tom-Alt. Hoi yoke district ofwestern Massachusetts, showing a greattrough, traversing the ancient crystallinerocks, which was filled with the sands, mudsand intruded lava flows in Triassic time. 10. The Wat kins Glen-Seneca Lake districtof central New York State, showing morainedeposits and other features due to the ad-vance and retreat of the continental ice sheetover a region of horizontally bedded lime-stone, sandstone and shale. In the background C24 3
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THE ERUPTION OF MT. PELEE ON THE ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE. This was oneof the most destructive eruptions known in history. It took place in the year 1902 and completelydestroyed the city of Saint Pierre causing the death of 30,000 inhabitants. From a painting in the Hall of Geology appears a representation of the retreating ice-front of the last glaciation. 11. The Alt. Washington, New Hampshire,region, showing typical glacial cirques andother glacial phenomena in an area of crystal-line rocks. 12. The picturesque Yosemite Valley in theSierra Nevada Mountains of California, withU-shaped glaciated valley bottom and pre-cipitous marginal walls 13. The San Francisco, California, model,exhibiting a portion of the Pacific Ocean, theCoast Range with volcanic and sedimentaryrocks, the California trough or inner low-land with plains bordering San FranciscoBay, and the famous strait, Golden Gate. 14. The New York City model, showingthe Hudson River estuary; the crystallinepre-Cambrian rocks on Man

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