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The Flood mansion/Comstock Lode/1906 earthquake/Connecticut Valley

 

Guiness, Alison C. The Portland Brownstone Quarries. Unpub. report, written as part of a grant from The Rockfall Corporation, Middletown, CT, 1987.

Hess, Ron, et al. Mining History and Place Names of the Comstock Area: A Field Trip Guidebook. 11th Annual Western States Geographic Names Conference, September 17-19, 1987, Reno, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 87-6, 1987.

Lewis, Oscar. Silver Kings: The Lives and Times of Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien, Lords of the Nevada Comstock Lode. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987.

Little, Richard. Dinosaurs, Dunes, and Drifting Continents: The Geohistory of the Connecticut Valley. 2nd edition.Valley Geology Publications, 1986.

Morris, Charles, ed. The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1986.

Smith, G.H. The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1920. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 37. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1943.

York, Bernard, and Henry G. Ferguson. The Geology of Nevada Ore Deposits and The Mining Districts of Nevada. University of Nevada Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 4. Geology and Mining Series No. 40. July 1944.

 

Stanford University

Short, William R., Jr. Geology of the Santa Teresa Hills, Santa Clara County, CA. Unpublished M.S. thesis, California State University at Hayward, 1986.

Stanford University History Web page. http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/

 

The New York Public Library lions

Floyd, Robert J. Tennessee Rock and Mineral Resources. State of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Geology, Bulletin 66. Reprinted 1990.

Miller, Robert A. The Geologic History of Tennessee. State of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Geology, Bulletin 74. Reprinted 1994.

The New York Public Library. About the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/admin/pro/aboutnypl.html

 

The Providence Arcade

Cady, John Hutchings. The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-1950. The Book Shop, Providence, 1957.

Hermes, O.D., L.P. Gromet, and D.P. Murray. Bedrock Geologic Map of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Map Series No. 1. Office of the Rhode Island State Geologist, 1994.

Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Preliminary Survey Report: Town of Johnston. August 1976.

Scanlon, James J., M.D. The Twelve Granite Columns of the Arcade Building. Old Rhode Island, vol. 2, issue 6, 1992.

Woodward, W.M., and E.F. Sanderson. Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources. Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986.

 

Fallingwater

Barnes, J.H., and W.D. Sevon. The Geological Story of Pennslvania. Pennsylvania Geolgical Survey, Educational Series 4, 1996.

Berg, T.M., Chief Compiler. Geologic Map of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1980.

 

General References

Parker, Sybil P., ed. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy. 5th edition. McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Redfern, Ron. The Making of a Continent. Times Books, 1983.

Van Andel, Tjeerd H. New Views on an Old Planet: A History of Global Change. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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