The purpose of this book is to
provide you with a bit more information about the organisms maintained at the ASLC so that you
may deepen your understanding and appreciation of them.
However, as a prelude to the more species-specific information contained in this document, there
are three short chapters...
The Jefferson Mountain area, located at the eastern end of
the Centennial Mountains in Fremont County, Idaho and Beaverhead
County, Montana, is approximately 42 square miles in size. The
area contains exposed metamorphic, sedimentary, and volcanic
rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Tertiary. Approximately
2,500 feet of Paleozoic and...
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Cambrian Flathead
Sandstone in the SE1/4 SW1/4 Sec. 35, T. 15
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5. Mottled limestone which
The thesis area includes 54 square miles of the southeastern
Cuddy Mountains in west-central Idaho. The oldest rocks within the
area are plutonic phases of the Jurassic Cuddy Mountain complex.
These and Cretaceous (?) intrusive and associated (?) extrusive rocks
and nearby Triassic to Early Jurassic metasedimentary and metavolcanic
rocks...
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Appreciation is also expressed to Dr. J. L. Weiner for his advice and
reading of the manuscript and to W. R
This is an integrated assessment across terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal marine realms. It includes the coast range of Oregon and Washington as well as Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The marine portion only includes the coastline and shallow subtidal; the next iteration will include the offshore component.
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P. Iachetti, G. Kittel, R. Crawford, D. Pickering, and J. Christy. 2006.
Pacific Northwest Coast
Upper Cambrian through Middle Devonian carbonate andclastic sequences of the northern part of the Fish Creek Rangerepresent shallow-shelf sedimentation in the Cordilleranmiogeosyncline. The lower and middle Paleozoic section exposedin the northern Fish Creek Range fits well within regional facies patterns and paleogeographic reconstructions.The Upper Cambrian Dunderberg Shale was deposited in...
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Archaeological investigations at the Cooper's Ferry site in Western Idaho have recovered cultural remains dating to 16,000 years ago, suggesting the oldest human occupation recorded in North America. However, many archaeologists have argued the initial peopling of North America occurred no earlier than the opening of an ice-free corridor between...