Stories in Stone

COVER

INTRODUCTION

Editor's Note

CHAPTER I WHAT'S THE USE?

An invitation; Standards of value; Discoveries and applications; Principles and "Doodlebugs"; Pure Science better than pure nonsense; Geology and scenery; I Want to know!; Aids to understanding; An elixir of life; The earth's activities.

CHAPTER II THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL

A message; Inspiration; Idealism and commercialism; The man who knows; Why worry?; Demand for geologists; Practical applications; Theory and practice; Prophetic geology; Science and utility; Fossils and oil; Franklin's reply; Illustrations.

CHAPTER III LANDSCAPES, NEW AND OLD, IN GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK

A personally conducted tour; Variety of scenes; First impressions; Need of study; Kaibab Plateau; Coconino Plateau; The Esplanade; The Tonto Platform; The Inner Gorge; How the canyon was made; Major Powell's exploration; How mountains are carried to the sea; Power of running water: Rocks of Grand Canyon; Ancient lands and unconformities; Geology and the interpretation of natural scenery.

CHAPTER IV ANCIENT LANDSCAPES

A lifeless landscape; Archean time; The Algonkian period; Algonkian glaciers; Length of Algonkian time; The Cambrian period; Fossils and history; Records in stone; The Carboniferous period; The sea and the Grand Canyon; Carboniferous life; Rise of animals from water to land; The formation of coal; A measure of geologic time; The Permian epoch; Natural bridges; Permian landscapes.

CHAPTER V TRIASSIC SCENES

The painted desert; Stone trees and wild stories; Ancient and modern uses of petrified wood; Fanciful accounts; How wood turns to stone; Changes in sea and land; Weapons of the Wolf God; Triassic animals and plants; Close of Triassic time.

CHAPTER VI JURASSIC SCENES

Zion National Park; Temples of the Virgin; Vermilion Cliffs; Gates of Zion; The Narrows; Rainbow Natural Bridge; Hills only relatively everlasting; Story of the Jurassic rocks; Jurassic animals; The first bird; Dinosaur National Monument; Discovery of Dinosaurs in America; A thunder lizard; Prehistoric combats; Dinosaur jewelry; A plated lizard; Where Triton and Titan Wrestled; Sea and the mountains.

CHAPTER VII CRETACEOUS SCENES

Mesa Verde National Park; The "Little People"; Story of the rocks; Cretaceous life.

CHAPTER VIII TERTIARY LANDSCAPES

Language of the rocks; Bryce Canyon; An age of violence; Tertiary animals; An animated fortress; Fall of reptilian imperialism; Physical records; Ancient mammals; The first horse; Poetical paleontology.

CHAPTER IX QUATERNARY LANDSCAPES

Glacier National Park; Yosemite National Park; Rocky Mountain National Park; Caverns; Mammoth Cave; Carlsbad Cavern; An ice cave in New Mexico; The lava country; Features of the ice cave; Origin of the ice; Scientific interest; Basis of geologic time divisions; Great Ice Age; Animals of the Great Ice Age; Recent epoch.

CHAPTER X A NEW METHOD OF OBSERVATION

An experience in the air; Looking a thunder storm in the face; Commercial and scientific uses of airplanes; The picture map; Air journeys over difficult places; Seeing things under water; Airplanes and charts.

CHAPTER XI LEGENDS OF CREATION

Ancient speculations; Indian myths; Early beliefs; Medieval opinions; The Nebular Hypothesis.

CHAPTER XII HOW WAS THE EARTH MADE?

Nebular and planetesimal theories; Fantastic interpretations; A cherished belief; Difficulty in changing established opinion; Errors in application; Origin of the planetesimal theory; A collision of worlds; A nebula formed; A new system; Earth growth; Atmosphere and ocean; Anomalies explained.

CHAPTER XIII FACTS, FANCIES, AND NEBULOUS THOUGHTS

Progress of Greeks, Romans, and Arabs; Curious explanations of fossils; Dark ages and backward steps; Truth and martyrdom; Science and dogma; Fossils and the Deluge; Figured stones; Persistence of beliefs; Stumbling blocks and stepping stones; The theory of Copernicus; The Dawn; Belief versus fact; Strata and fossils; Progress an established law.

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TO LOVERS OF THE NATURAL BEAUTY AND THE GRANDEUR OF THE EARTH, TO THOSE WHO LOOK TO THE MOUNTAINS FOR PLEASURE, AND TO THOSE WHO MAKE THE ROCKS YIELD THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR TREASURE OF KNOWLEDGE, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED.

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