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Identifier: nationalparkspor1917yard (find matches)
Title: The national parks portfolio
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. National Park Service
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Photograph by (ieorge V. Dauchy The GuNsiGHT Trail, just East of the Pass Showing Gunsight Lake; Going-to-the-Sun Mountain in Left Distance
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MAKING A NATIONAL PARK ilOW nature, just how many millions of years ago no man can esti- Hmate, made the Glacier National Park is a stirring story.Once this whole region was covered with water, probably theI sea. The earthy sediments deposited by this water hardened intorocky strata. If you were in the park to-day you would see broad horizontalstreaks of variously colored rock in the mountain masses thousands of feetabove you. They are discernible in the photographs in this book. They arethe very strata that the waters deposited in their depths in those far-away ages.How they got from the seas bottoms to the mountains tops is the story. According to one fa-mous theory of creation,theearth has been contractingthrough unnumbered cyclesof time. Just as the squeezedorange bulges in places, sothis region was forced up-ward. Then it cracked andthe western edge was thrustfar over the eastern edge.The edge thus thrustover was many thousandsof feet thick and disclosedall the geological strataw

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