Author: Smithsonian Institution

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 9780332079721

Excerpt from Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institute in 1919 Geological explorations were continued in the Canadian Rocky Mountains during the field season of 1919 with two objects in view: (i) The discovery of an unmetamorphosed, undisturbed section of the Upper Cambrian formations north of the Canadian Pacific Railway; and (2) the collection of fossils to determine the various formations and to correlate them with the Upper Cambrian forma tions elsewhere. The party going from Washington consisted of Dr. And Mrs. Charles D. Walcott and Arthur Brown, who has accompanied them for a number of years. Early in July an attempt was made to reach Ghost River northeast of Banff, Alberta, but this failed owing to the extensive outbreak of forest fires in that region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.