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The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California by Waldemar Lindgren (1911) (301 pages)

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U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 73 PLATE XVIII
A. SIERRA BUTTES, IN THE DOWNIEVILLE QUADRANGLE, SIERRA COUNTY.
A part of the Cretaceous divide of the Sierra Nevada. Viewed from the south. Photograph by H. W. Turner.
See page 38.
, B. SNOW MOUNTAIN, IN THE TRUCKEE QUADRANGLE, PLACER COUNTY.
A part of the Cretaceous divide of the Sierra Nevada. Viewed from rhyolite bluff south of American River, about
00 feet above a Tertiary channel. Between the bluff and Snow Mountain the deep canyon of American River
is eroded. Showing rough Tertiary topography near the old Cretaceous divide. Photogragh by J.C. Hawver.
See page 38.