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This excursion, primarily for students of glacial geology, is intended also to afford an opportunity to study the type example of a remnant mountain of harder rock left standing above the New England plateau, when the latter was worn down nearly to base-level during a former cycle of erosion. The party will leave this evening, returning tomorrow night. It will be conducted by Mr. J. B. Woodworth...
...main observatory was built in 1891 at Arequipa, a town about 80 miles inland and about 8000 feet above sea level. Here on a plateau about 400 feet above the town itself, a large house with a dome has been built, with laboratories connecting. Between this and the sea are two other observatories, one at Mollendo, 8 feet above the sea, the other at La Joya at an elevation of about 4000 feet...
Geological Conference. Papers: Some Features of the Arizona Plateau (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. L. S. Griswold; Description of Excursion to Meriden, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Papers: Some Features of the Arizona Plateau (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. L. S. Griswold, Description of Excursion to Meriden, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...this contemplated action is taken it will leave only the two blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Sixteenth Streets of the plateau between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Park undisposed of. The remainder will be taken up by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has the Leake and Watt's Orphan Asylum tract, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, and by St. Luke's Hospital, which last week purchased the block between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Streets. The property consists of a great ledge which will afford...