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A Partial Review of Israel Cook Russell's Geologic History of Lake Lahontan (1885) in Respect to Several More Recent Geologic Publications

Collection

Identifier: 89-38

Abstract

Report comparing Russell's book on the geologic history of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, with later works centering on the origin of the name, the level of Pyramid Lake and its relationship with Winnemucca Lake, and theories of tufa formation as related to the age of Pyramid Lake.

Dates: 1981

Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Subject: Geology -- Nevada X
Subject: Lahontan, Lake X

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