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  THE 
  

  

  AMERICAN 
  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  SCIENCE 
  

  

  [THIRD 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

  Art. 
  XYI. 
  — 
  The 
  Appalachian 
  Type 
  of 
  Folding 
  in 
  the 
  

   White 
  Mountain 
  Range 
  of 
  Inyo 
  County, 
  California 
  / 
  by 
  

   Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott. 
  

  

  [Read 
  before 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  America, 
  Baltimore 
  meeting, 
  Dec. 
  27, 
  1894.] 
  

  

  That 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  White 
  Mountain 
  range 
  of 
  California, 
  

   to 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  wish 
  to 
  call 
  attention, 
  is 
  situated 
  

   between 
  the 
  road 
  passing 
  from 
  Big 
  Pine, 
  Inyo 
  County, 
  in 
  

   Owen's 
  valley, 
  through 
  Waucobi 
  Canyon 
  to 
  Saline 
  valley, 
  and 
  

   the 
  crest 
  of 
  the 
  ridge 
  a 
  little 
  south 
  of 
  White 
  Mountain 
  peak. 
  

   The 
  length 
  of 
  this 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  range 
  is 
  about 
  forty 
  miles. 
  

   South 
  of 
  the 
  Saline 
  valley 
  road 
  the 
  range 
  has 
  received 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  Inyo 
  range, 
  and 
  is 
  so 
  named 
  in 
  all 
  reports 
  upon 
  it. 
  

   Each 
  observer, 
  however, 
  states 
  that 
  he 
  does 
  not 
  see 
  any 
  reason 
  

   for 
  applying 
  the 
  two 
  names 
  to 
  the 
  range, 
  as 
  the 
  Inyo 
  portion 
  

   is 
  the 
  southern 
  prolongation 
  of 
  the 
  White 
  Mountain 
  range. 
  

   On 
  the 
  latest 
  map* 
  published 
  of 
  this 
  region 
  the 
  entire 
  range 
  

   from 
  Owen's 
  Lake 
  to 
  the 
  California-Nevada 
  line, 
  is 
  called 
  the 
  

   White 
  Mountain 
  range. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  J. 
  D. 
  Whitneyf 
  makes 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  Inyo 
  and 
  

   White 
  Mountain 
  ranges, 
  stating 
  that 
  little 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  their 
  

   geology, 
  except 
  that, 
  from 
  Bend 
  City 
  for 
  twenty-five 
  miles 
  

   north, 
  their 
  western 
  base 
  and 
  slopes 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  composed 
  of 
  

   slates 
  and 
  other 
  stratified 
  rocks, 
  generally 
  dipping 
  to 
  the 
  south- 
  

   west 
  and 
  often 
  much 
  contorted. 
  v 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  K. 
  Gilbert^ 
  crossed 
  

  

  * 
  Map 
  accompanying 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  Hart 
  Merriam 
  on 
  an 
  expedition 
  to 
  

   Death 
  Valley, 
  compiled 
  under 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  A. 
  H. 
  Thompson, 
  1892. 
  

  

  \ 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  California, 
  Geology., 
  vol 
  i, 
  1865, 
  p. 
  459. 
  

  

  $Expl. 
  and 
  Surv. 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  One 
  Hundredth 
  Meridian, 
  vol. 
  iii, 
  Geol., 
  1875, 
  

   pp. 
  34 
  and 
  169. 
  

  

  Am. 
  Jour. 
  Sci.— 
  Third 
  Series, 
  Vol. 
  XLIX, 
  No. 
  291.— 
  March, 
  1895. 
  

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