A Monograph by Capt C. E. Dutton

Abstract

IN a handsome quarto volume, with a large atlas of maps and coloured views, the recently-constituted United States Geological Survey begins its series of memoirs descriptive of the geological structure and history of the country. Most appropriately the subject selected for illustration is at once the grandest and most unique feature in the geology of the United States, and to which indeed there is no parallel elsewhere in the world. Ever since the early Report by Ives and New-berry, in which the marvels of the Rio Colorado of the West were first made known, there has been a strong desire among geologists to learn more of that region, to have accurate measurements and careful drawings, and to be told authoritatively the details and the history of what they could not but admit to be the most stupendous example of river-erosion on the face of the globe.

A Monograph by Capt. C. E. Dutton.

Being Vol. 11. of the Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. With Atlas. 4to. [Vol. 1. is not yet published.] (Washington, 1882.)