 ... gypsum are here exposed and the marls are alkaline and saline. We have therefore local proof, as well as the most conclusive evidence from the environs, that the whole of the plain is in or near the horizon of gypsum and salt that separates the lower...  Gypsum Desposits in the United States - Seite 91von George Irving Adams - 1904 - 129 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin - 1900 - 1088 Seiten
...horizon of gypsum and salt that separates the lower from the middle member of the red or saline series. In the salt flats the ribs of gypsum rise in successive...grains which are carried by the winds hither and yon. This characteristic of the salinas accounts for the most curious and notable of the many peculiarities... | |
 | 1904 - 924 Seiten
...'the sands themselves is another still larger salt lake. Where arroyos cut the plain, and in the hanks of the salt lakes, are exposures of shale and gypsum,...not be far below the surface at any point. In the (-alt flats the ribs of gypsum rise in successive ridges, and the action of the elements soon breaks... | |
 | University of New Mexico. Hadley climatological laboratory - 1900 - 216 Seiten
...horizon of gypsum and salt that separates the lower from the middle member of the red or saline series. In the salt flats the ribs of gypsum rise in successive...grains which are carried by the winds hither and yon. This characteristic of the salinas accounts for the most curious and notable of the many peculiarities... | |
 | Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin - 1900 - 828 Seiten
...horizon of gypsum and salt that separates the lower from the middle member of the red or saline series. In the salt flats the ribs of gypsum rise in successive...grains which are carried by the winds hither and yon. This characteristic of the salinas accounts for the most curious and notable of the many peculiarities... | |
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