Harriman Alaska Series Volume IV, Geology and Paleontology
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910.
Hardcover. Near fine. 173 pp + frontispiece and 32 additional plates, with index and 18 text illustrations. Small dent in spine cloth, touch of wear to extremities, else fine. Organized and financed by railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman, the Harriman Alaska Expedition included 25 scientists and naturalists, as well as sizeable team of photographers and artists, among them Edward Curtis, Frank Dellenbaugh, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. This volume includes general information on the geology of the region, followed by chapters on the Alaska-Treadvell Mine; Geology About Chichagof Cove; Minerals; Neozoic Invertebrate Fossils; Fossils and Age of the Yukutat Formation; and Fossil Plants from Kukak Bay.
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