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...meeting of the Geological Conference last night Professor Davis gave an account of his excursion to the region of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River last June in company with Professor Dodge of Columbia and Dr. Gregory of Yale. The party entered the plateau region at Flagstaff station on the south and spent twenty-two days in camp, travelling in wagons and on horseback at an average rate of twenty-five miles a day. They crossed the Colorado at Lee's Ferry and went out on the north at Milford...
...which is about two miles north of Cambridge. The area of the reservation, about twelve square miles, has been carefully mapped topographically by the metropolitan Park Commissioners, and their chart is being used by the Harvard men as a starting point for more accurate and fine geological mapping. This region is a very important subject of study, since it illustrates many different rock formations. The structure of these formations has never been carefully worked out, and on the interpretation of this structure depends many important questions in the geological history of Eastern Massachusetts...
...Gregory of Yale and a party of about fifteen advanced students in geology will arrive in Cambridge tomorrow and will join a party of Harvard students in geological excursions conducted by Professor Davis. Tomorrow afternoon the party will go to Blue Hill for a general view of the region. The second excursion, on Saturday, will be to Clifton and Marblehead Neck, where the party will inspect the various phenomena of igneous rocks and seashore erosion. There will be an informal gathering of the instructors and students in the Rotch Building tomorrow evening for the entertainment of the visitors...
...detail quite lacking from the simple structure of the great plains. Not only is the rock formation varied and interesting, but an additional attraction lies in the fact that it is only a short time from a geological point of view since an ice-cap existed over all this region. Traces of it are too plain to be for a moment doubted. When the ice-sheet receded northward, the streams which came from under it deposited sand in great quantities as they approached the sea. These rivers flowed through ice arches under the glaciers; and remnants of them can still...
...closing, Professor Shaler spoke of the charm of the region from an artistic point of view and illustrated both phases of his talk by stereopticon...