Title
Field notes and maps, various years between circa 1931 and 1955
Related Titles
Contained In:
G. Arthur Cooper Papers, 1923-1993 and undated
Series:
SIA RU007318
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1931-1955
Notes
This field book contains notes on the paleontological specimen and geology in the South, Midwest, and Southwest United States taken between 1931 and 1955, although not continuously. Cooper describes stratigraphy, often providing color and consistency of shale in which fossils are found. Examples of fossils noted include cephalopoda, trilobites and brachiopoda genera streptorhynchus, pionodema, mimella, and rafinesquina. Other fossil specimen are noted as well. Locations Cooper visits include localities in Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Quebec, and New Mexico. Index of localities accompanies field notes. Also includes notes from Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Some coordinates are included. Page numbers for these field notes are 0001-0858.
Subjects
Alabama
,
Canada
,
Field notes
,
Geology
,
Georgia
,
Kansas
,
Minnesota
,
New Mexico
,
Oklahoma
,
Paleontology
,
Québec
,
Tennessee
,
Texas
,
United States
,
Virginia
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.110024
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