1st -12th Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 - 12 pages |
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15 feet 20 feet Amethyst Mountain ANDESITE appear basalt base beneath breccias bubbling Butte color cone conglomerates crater Cretaceous crystals deposit described East Fork edge Electric Peak Elk Creek eruption extends feet diameter feet in diameter Fire Hole fissure flows formations Gallatin Gallatin Range Gardiner River Gardiner's River Garnet Hill GEOLOGICAL Geyser Basin geyserite granite gray height hill hornblendic hornblendic trachyte inches irregular limestone lower Lower Geyser Basin Mammoth Hot Springs mass miles minutes mound Mount Evarts Mount Washburn mud springs Mud Volcanoes orifice outcrops Park pass Plate plateau pool probably Professor Comstock quartzites range region rhyolite ridge rise rocks sandstones sanidin Sepulchre Mountain shales sheet of rhyolite slopes spouting spur spurts steam vents steep strata sulphureted hydrogen summit surface temperature terrace Tertiary thickness Tower Creek trachyte Turbid upper volcanic wall yellow Yellowstone Lake Yellowstone River
Popular passages
Page 66 - Such regulations shall provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.
Page 66 - That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to make and publish, as soon as practicable, such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same.
Page 234 - When within about forty feet of the surface, it became stationary, and we returned to look down upon it. It was foaming and surging at a terrible rate, occasionally emitting small jets of hot water nearly to the mouth of the orifice. All at once it seemed seized with a fearful spasm, and rose with incredible rapidity, hardly affording us time to flee to a safe distance, when it burst from the orifice with terrific momentum, rising in a column the full size of this immense aperture to the height of...
Page 66 - Gardiner's rivers; thence east to the place of beginning is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and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...
Page 66 - 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...
Page 66 - All these springs are adorned with decorations more beautiful than human art ever conceived, and which have required thousands of years for the cunning hand of nature to form.
Page 79 - ... constant gentle vibrations. One can look down into the clear depths and see, with perfect distinctness, the minutest ornament on the inner sides of the basins ; and the exquisite beauty of the coloring and the variety of forms baffle any attempt to portray them, either with pen or pencil.
Page 66 - Secretary may, in his discretion, grant leases for building purposes, for terms not exceeding ten years, of small parcels of ground, at such places in said park as shall require the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors...
Page 66 - He shall provide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within said park, and against their capture or destruction for the purposes of merchandise or profit. He shall also cause all persons trespassing upon the same after the passage of this act to be removed therefrom, and generally shall be authorized to take all such measures as shall be necessary or proper to fully carry out the objects and purposes of this act.
Page 350 - ... a dull noise is heard like that of distant thunder. Having advanced so near that the vision was no longer impeded by the smoke, a large hemispherical mass was observed, consisting of black earth mixed with water, about sixteen feet in diameter, rising to the height...