Book/Printed Material Report of the survey of the Colorado of the West. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a report of the survey of the Colorado of the West, and its tributaries. January 31, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 42d Congress HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mis Doc 3d Session j No 76 REPORT OF THE SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRANSMITTING A…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 2 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST appropriation would permit and the wants of the country at present re quire The work is much more than a mere exploration since it…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 3 Rivers on tlie north The observations for the angles were made with an eightinch theodolite SECONDARY TRIANGULATION AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHING This triangulation completed the…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 4 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST former work was abandoned A land party was sent back to Kanab with instructions to take rations from thence to the mouth of Kanab…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 5 The barometrical observations were continued until all the instruments were unfit for service The tossing of the boats by the waves in run ning…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 6 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST MR JONES PROCEEDS TO TRACE THE CANONS OF THE UPPER VIRGEN Mr Jones one of the topographers was sent with one assistant to trace…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 7 of the carboniferous age and from these a fair collection of fossils has been made Farther to the north passing over the Triassic Jurassic…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST sand words and obtained some knowledge of the grammar of tlieir lan guage such as the declension of the pronoun and noun conjugation of the…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 9 The triangulation previously mentioned lias determined the position of a series of geodetic points and from tliese the locations of the general topographical features…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 10 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST Next we find from 1000 to 1200 feet of Jurassic rocks Still surmount ing these we have from 1800 to 2000 feet of cretaceous…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 11 are built on salients of these cliffs and they are further interesting as being the repository of extensive beds of coal The Pink Cliffs…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 12 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST found to be 820 feet the drop appears to be greater on the south side of the canon The fault we have named Toroweap…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 13 below it appears as a fold and above as a fault Yet in other places the rocks are not separated by a welldefined fissure…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 14 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST tlie valleys are thus simple Many others for parts of their courses would fall under one variety and for other parts another variety such…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST 15 money fiftytwo thousand five hundred square miles of territory has been surveyed geographically and geologically the topographical work having a trigonometrical basis PLANS FOR…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76 O 16 SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST priation necessary for the preparation of the report and the engraving of the maps 1 beg permission to call your attention to some…- Contributor: United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States Congress. House - Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1873
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Title
- Report of the survey of the Colorado of the West. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a report of the survey of the Colorado of the West, and its tributaries. January 31, 1873. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed
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- Cited as: H. Misc. Doc. 42-76
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- United States Congress. House
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. House, author
- Smithsonian Institution
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1873.
Headings
- - Powell, John Wesley
- - Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)
- - Cartography
- - Discoveries in geography
- - Discovery and exploration
- - Faults (Geology)
- - Geodesy
- - Geological surveys
- - Hydrographic surveying
- - Bodies of water
- - Rivers
- - Triangulation
- - Cost
- - Colorado River
- - Grand Canyon
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- Government publication
- Executive department publications
- Legislative materials
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- 1 online resource (16 pages).
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- KF12
- 42-3:H.MIS.DOC.76
- Y 1.1/2:1572
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- Bodies of Water
- Cartography
- Colorado River
- Cost
- Discoveries in Geography
- Discovery and Exploration
- Executive Department Publications
- Faults (Geology)
- Geodesy
- Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)
- Geological Surveys
- Government Publication
- Grand Canyon
- Hydrographic Surveying
- Legislative Materials
- Powell, John Wesley
- Rivers
- Triangulation