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GEOLOGISTS interested in the history of the younger Java-floods, by which such vast areas both in the Old World and in the New have been deluged, will be glad to know that Capt. Dutton, of the United States Geological Survey, after a careful study of the modern volcanic phenomena of the Sandwich Islands, has under-taken the investigation of the basalt-territory lying in New Mexico, to the east and south of the area already so fully described by him in his Monographs on the Utah plateaux and the Canon country. It was originally intended that he should have charge of the Survey of the Cascade Range. This arrangement was changed at the beginning of this last season. The Cascade ground was intrusted to his able assistant, Mr. Diller, while Capt. Dutton himself struck southward for a region in New Mexico, which he had long wished to study, from the light which he believed it would throw upon some of the later phases of volcanism in the Western Territories. I have received a long letter from him, written in his camp at the San Mateo Mountains, from which, with his per mission, I send the following extract for publication in NATURE.
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DUTTON, C. The Basalt-Fields of New Mexico . Nature 31, 88–89 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031088a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/031088a0