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Mount Rushmore National Memorial : geologic resource evaluation report / John Graham.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, John P. (John Paul), author.
- Series:
- Natural resources report ; 2008/038.
- Natural resource report ; NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR--2008/038
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.)--Environmental conditions.
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.).
- Environmental monitoring--South Dakota--Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
- Environmental monitoring.
- Geology--South Dakota--Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
- Geology.
- National parks and reserves--South Dakota--Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
- National parks and reserves.
- Ecology.
- South Dakota--Badlands National Park.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 33 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
- Other Title:
- MORU geologic resource evaluation report
- Place of Publication:
- Denver, Colorado : Geologic Resources Division, Natural Resource Program Center ; Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of the Interior, 2008.
- Contents:
- Executive summary
- Introduction. Purpose of the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program
- Geologic setting
- Park history
- Geologic issues. structural stability and erosion
- Water resources
- Mining impacts
- Disturbed lands
- Geologic features and processes. Igneous and metamorphic features
- Minerals
- Cave and karst features
- Frost wedging
- Map unit properties. Map unit properties table
- Geologic history. Precambrian history of the Black Hills region
- Mesozoic history of the Black Hills region
- Cretaceous-Tertiary Laramide Orogeny
- Quaternary history of the Black Hills region
- Glossary
- References
- Appendix A : Geologic map graphic.
- Notes:
- "June 2008."
- "NPS D-95"--Page ii.
- "Experience your America"--Page 4 of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Nature.NPS.gov website, viewed October 4, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1121643390
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