Guide to the Bailey Willis Geological Formations Photographs

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Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford, California

2000

Overview

Call Number: A0099

Creator: Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949.

Title: Bailey Willis Geological formations photographs

Dates: 1884-1899

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Administrative transfer from the Dept. of Geology, 2000

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Cite As

[Identification of item], Bailey Willis Geological Formations Photographs (A0099). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biography

Bailey Willis, a member of the United States Geological Survey, came to Stanford University in 1915 to succeed John C. Branner as head of the Department of Geology and taught here until his retirement in 1922.

Scope and Content

This album contains photographs of various geological formations, including columnar basalt, monoclinal ridges and folds, sandstone dikes, and exfoliated granite. Locations include New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, California (Lassen, Inyo, and Shasta Counties), Colorado (Garden of the Gods and Golden), Nebraska (Sioux and Banner Counties), and South Dakota (Big Bad Lands and the Black Hills). Photographers and dates are identified on only a few images. In one image (taken in Wilbur, New York) an outdoor advertisement for a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin is visible on a shed.

Box 1, Folder 1

Pages 1-3:

41. Columnar basalt. O'Rourke's quarry, Orange Mountain, New Jersey

67? The Shenandoah River near Harper's Ferry

50. Middle quarry, Penryn Slate Company. Bedding of roofing slate coincident with cleavage

48. Cliffs in Topmans Gulch, Jefferson County, New York

57. Cherty layers interbedded with shales, eight miles below Quebec, Canada

42. Columnar basalt. O'Rourke's quarry, Orange Mountain, New Jersey. North end of quarry

Box 1, Folder 2

Pages 4-6:

68? Potomac near Harper's Ferry. Note that the strata stand on end

88. Monoclinal ridge. Colorado City, Colorado. Triassic and Jurassic

140. Gravel spit near Mackinaw Island, Lake Michigan

218. The cinder cone from the east, Lake Bidwell, Lassen County, California

214. Sandstone dike penetrating Cretaceous shales, Dry Creek, California

216. Lava field and cinder cone looking southwest across Lake Bidwell, Lassen County, California; Lassen Peak in the distance

Box 1, Folder 3

Pages 7-9:

45. Vertical columns of basalt with spheroidal parting and transverse structure. O'Rourke's quarry, Orange Mountain, New Jersey.

43. Columnar basalt. South end of O'Rourke's quarry, Orange Mountain, New Jersey

251. Overturned anticline in Massanutten beds, Panther Gap, Virginia; looking south

401. Fault in the Gering formation half a mile north of Rutland siding, south of Crawford, Nebraska; looking west

22. Anticlinal fold in Levis terrace, about Levis Station, Quebec, Canada

23. Folding of shales and sandstone, south shore of the St. Lawrence River nine miles below Quebec

Box 1, Folder 4

Pages 10-12:

37. Brecciated limestone conglomerate. Highgate Falls, Vermont

589. Folds in Cambrian sandstones and shales. Doe River, Tennessee

27. Fold in Brown sandstone near Hancock, West Virginia

26. Arched strata on Chesepeak [sic] and Ohio Canal near Hancock, West Virginia

520. Protoceras sandstone area, Big Bad Lands, South Dakota, 1898

525. the Pulpit, Big Bad Lands, South Dakota, 1898

Box 1, Folder 5

Pages 13-15:

441. Toadstool Park, northwest of Adelia, Sioux County, Nebraska

327. Erosion by wind-blown sand; three miles northeast of Freeport, Banner County, Nebraska

868. Plicated layers of thin bedded chert in limestone

841. Lower Cambrian quartzite showing vertical cleavage in massive layers and interbedded thin layers without cleavage. Inyo County, California

595. Concretions in the Laramie sandstone, Weston County, Wyoming

Box 1, Folder 6

Pages 16-18:

206. image missing

209. Sandstone dikes cutting Cretaceous shales on Roaring River, Shasta County, California

55. image missing

145. Beach or bar joining Empire and Sleeping Bar bluffs on Lake Michigan

176. Upturned lower shaley beds of the Helderberg formation at Wilbur, New York; looking north [large advertisement for performance of Uncle Tom's cabin visible on shed]

157. Falls over Pentamerus and Tentaculite beds. South Bethlehem near Albany, New York; looking south

Box 1, Folder 7

Pages 19-21:

427. Sandstone columns of erosion. Garden of the Gods, Colorado, 1898

223. Anticlinal fold in the Lewiston limestone and Monterey sandstone. North Fork of the Potomac River, two miles south of Hopeville, West Virginia; looking north

210. Group of sandstone dikes on the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek, Shasta County, California

47. Table Mountain near Golden, Colorado

211. Group of sandstone dikes on the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek, Shasta County, California

226. Near view of lava blocks on the edge of the lava fields near Lake Bidwell, Lassen County, California. The lava is basalt

Box 1, Folder 8

Pages 22-24:

430. Cathedral Spires. Garden of the Gods, Colorado

434. Titanotheriun beds, two miles east of Adelia, Sioux County, Nebraska

368. Toadstool Park, three miles northwest of Adelia, Sioux County, Nebraska. Thin sandstone layers in clays of Big Bad Lands series

505. Pass over which Flour Trail crosses the Big Bad Lands. High level Pleistocene gravel in the foreground

222. Anticline fold in the Lewiston limestone and Monterey sandstone, north fork of the Potomac River, two miles south of Hopeville, West Virginia; looking north

254. Dakota sands in a pit just south of Bennett, Nebraska (note in pencil: "false bedding")

Box 1, Folder 9

Pages 25-27:

213. Sandstone dike penetrating Cretaceous shales, Dry Creek, California

205. Sandstone dike penetrating Cretaceous shales. Dry Creek, Tehama County, California

865. Plicated layers of thin bedded chert in limestone

867. Plicated layers of thin bedded chert in limestone

465. Granite Needles, near Harney's Peak, Black Hills, South Dakota, 1898

469. The Needles. Southern Group, near Harney's Peak, Black Hills, South Dakota, 1898

Box 1, Folder 10

Pages 28-30:

35. Seams in limestone filled with calcite

36. Seams in limestone filled with calcite

507. Big Bad Lands north of Flour Trail, South Dakota

519. Protoceras area, Big Bad Lands, South Dakota, 1898

177. Cement rock and sand rock railroad cut one mile south of Whiteport Station, New York: looking north (note in pencil: "beds folded and eroded")

182. Arch at High Falls, Ulster County, New York, looking northwest

Box 1, Folder 11

Pages 31-33:

87. Jurassic rocks. Como, Wyoming

84. Triassic sandstone. Garden of the Gods, Colorado

142. Spit on Train Island, Lake Superior

242. Exfoliated granite dome in Tuolumne County, California

121. Forest killed by drifting sand. Lake Michigan

144. I recurved spit, duck Point, Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan

Box 1, Folder 12

Pages 34-35:

1189. Exfoliated granite, crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains (note in pencil: "no bedding")

1198. Wind ripples on sand, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

1190. Wind ripples on sand, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

54. Boulders of decomposition formed by the decay of basalt. Table Mountain, Golden, Colorado, (note in pencil: "no bedding") 1884

1175. Potholes in the granite of the canon of the North Fork of the Mokelumne River, California

Box 1, Folder 13

Pages 36-37:

25. Section of anticlinal ridge near Dunkirk, New York. Devonian black shale

128. Old lake shore near Pierrepoint, New York

115. Shore of Lake Ontario, Pillar Point, New York. Typical glacial surface

669. "Point Pots." Near Fountain Geyser in the Yellowstone National Park, 1899

113. Striated limestone boulder from Norway, Iowa (half natural size)

Box 2

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