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- Blatt, Harvey, Middleton, Gerard, and Murray, Raymond 1
- Bonney, T. G. 1
- Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John 1
- Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine, A. M. King 1
- Enkelmann, Eva 1
- Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew 1
- Moore, George W. and Sullivan, G. Nicholas 1
- Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G. 1
- Moorhouse, W. W. 1
- Phillips, F. C. 1
- Spencer, Edgar W. 1
- Sweeting, Marjorie M. 1
Proud heritage : people and progress in early Canadian geoscience
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25670
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
- Responsibility
- Edited by R. W. Macqueen
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 217 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Science
- Abstract
- Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience is a collection of articles from Geoscience Canada and its predecessor, highlighting the people and events which helped shape our geoscience history. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial content topics: Early geological contributors -- Geological pioneers, 19th century -- Geological leaders, 19th and 20th centuries -- Geological leaders, 20th century -- Early geological studies -- Short biographies
- ISBN
- 919216943
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
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Upon the origin of alpine and Italian lakes ; and upon glacial erosion
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26171
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Publisher
- New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
- Call Number
- 03.4 R14u
- Responsibility
- A. C. Ramsay, John Ball, Roderick I. Murchinson, B. Studer, A. Favre, Edward Whymper, and J. W. Spencer.
- Publisher
- New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
- Published Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- 148 pages
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Italy
- Europe
- Alps
- glaciology
- Glaciers
- Geology
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03.4 R14u
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Origin of sedimentary rocks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25661
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Blatt, Harvey, Middleton, Gerard, and Murray, Raymond
- Publisher
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall Inc.
- Call Number
- 03 B59o
- Publisher
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall Inc.
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 782 pages
- Scale
- 0136427103
- Abstract
- An advanced textbook on sendimentary rock origins.
- Contents
- Selection of topic examples: Aims and methods in the study of sedimentary rocks -- physics of sedimentary processes; terrigenous clastic sediments -- carbonate rocks and evaporites -- other sedimentary rocks -- environments and facies
- Notes
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- 2021.20
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- 03 B59o
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The alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries : a pedestrian's noteson their physical features, scenery, and natural history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26161
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1896
- Author
- Bonney, T. G.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.2 B64a
- Author
- Bonney, T. G.
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by E. Whymper
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
- Published Date
- 1896
- Physical Description
- 351 pages ; 15 ill. ; 5 plates
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Geology
- Italy
- Glaciers
- Animals
- Avalanches
- Botany
- Folklore
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.2 B64a
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Principles of stratigraphy
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25664
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
- Publisher
- New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Call Number
- 03 D91p
- Publisher
- New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 356 pages
- Subjects
- stratigraphy
- Geology
- Abstract
- Carl O. Dunbar and John Rodgers authored this textbook in response to the growing interest in the study of stratigraphy in academia.
- Contents
- Part I : Environments of deposition -- Part 2 : Basic stratigraphic relations -- Part 3 : Interpretation of specific lithotopes -- Part 4 : Synthesis
- Notes
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- 2021.20
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- 03 D91p
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Glacial and periglacial geomorphology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25665
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1970
- Author
- Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine, A. M. King
- Publisher
- Toronto : Macmillan
- Call Number
- 03.4 E1g
- Publisher
- Toronto : Macmillan
- Published Date
- 1970
- Physical Description
- 608 pages
- Subjects
- glaciology
- Geology
- Contents
- Part I : Basic concepts of glaciation and glacier behaviour -- Part 2 : Glacial and fluvioglacial erosion -- Part 3 : Glacial and fluvioglacial deposition -- Part 4 : Periglacial geomorphology
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- 2021.20
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- 03.4 E1g
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Rocky voices : the memories of minerals that form the Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26193
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Enkelmann, Eva
- Publisher
- Altona, MB : FriesenPress
- Call Number
- 03.2 En5r
- 03.2 En5r reference copy
- Author
- Enkelmann, Eva
- Publisher
- Altona, MB : FriesenPress
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 113 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- A collection of stories from the perspectives of personified minerals found in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Lucy Calcite -- Sir Charles Zircon -- Jenny Apatite -- Joel Illite -- Captain Susi Sanidine -- Sam Coal -- Emma Amphipora -- David Rock Flour -- Karen Waterdrop -- Peter Pebble -- Bridget Cement -- Ray Clay.
- ISBN
- 9781039161542
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 03.2 En5r
- 03.2 En5r reference copy
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Canada rocks : the geologic journey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25671
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 450 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Abstract
- A complete overview of the geological formation of Canada covering four billion years.
- Contents
- 1. A hellish beginning -- 2. Moving earth : plate tectonics -- 3. The united plates of Canada : four billion years of tectonic activity 4. Canada's heartland : the shield -- 5. Giant seas cover the shield : the interior platform -- 6. Building Eastern Canada -- 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 8. Building Western Canada -- 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 10. Rocky resouces : mining in Canada -- 11. Challenges for the future -- 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity
- ISBN
- 9781550418606
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
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Speleology : the study of caves
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25672
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Moore, George W. and Sullivan, G. Nicholas
- Publisher
- Teaneck, New Jersey : Zephyrus Press, Inc.
- Call Number
- 04 M78s
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by John Schoenherr
- Publisher
- Teaneck, New Jersey : Zephyrus Press, Inc.
- Physical Description
- 150 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Speleology
- Geology
- Caves
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Origin of caves -- 3. Characteristics of the underground atmosphere -- 4. Growth of stalactites and other speleothems -- 5. Behavior and products of cave microorganisms -- 6. Habits of cave animals -- 7. Evolution of blind cave animals -- 8. Uses of caves
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- 0914264214
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 M78s
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Invertebrate fossils
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25667
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1952
- Author
- Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Call Number
- 04 M78i
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 766 pages
- Subjects
- Fossils
- Invertebrate
- Geology
- Contents
- 1. The nature of fossils -- 2. Foraminifera and radiolaria -- 3. Sponges and spongelike fossils -- 4. Coelenterates -- 5. Bryozoans -- 6. Brachiopods -- 7. Mollusks -- 8. Gastropods -- 9. Cephalopods -- 10. Pelecypods -- 11. Annelids and other worms -- 12. Arthropods -- 13. Trilobites -- 14. Ostracodes and other crustaceans -- 15. Chelicerates, myriapods, and insects -- 16. Echinoderms -- 17. Primitive attached echinoderms -- 18. Crinoids -- 19. Holothuroids -- 20. Starfishes -- 21. Echinoids -- 22. Graptolites and pterobranchs -- 23. Condonts
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- 2021.20
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- 04 M78i
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The study of rocks in thin section
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25662
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Moorhouse, W. W.
- Publisher
- New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
- Call Number
- 03 M78t
- Author
- Moorhouse, W. W.
- Publisher
- New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 514 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
- Series
- Harper's geoscience series
- Subjects
- Petrology
- Geology
- Science
- mineralogy
- Contents
- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Methods of optical mineralogy -- 3. Description of minerals -- 4. Mineral identification tables -- 5. Petrography of igneous rocks and related rocks -- 6. Volcanic and hypabyssal rocks : basalts, diabases, and related rocks -- 7. Andesites, dacites, and related rocks -- 8. quartz latites (rhyodacites) and rhyolites -- 9. Latites, trachytes, phonolites, and leucite trachytes -- 10. tuffs and pyroclastics -- 11. The plutonic rocks : gabbro, norite, and related rocks -- 12. The alkali gabbos : essexite, theralite, and related rocks -- 13. Quartz diorite, granodiorite, granite, and related rocks -- 14. Diorites, monzonites, syenites, and related rocks -- 15. Nepheline syenites and other delfspathoidal rocks -- 16. Ultrabasic rocks : peridotite, pyrozenite, and hornblendite -- 17. Lamprophyres -- 18. Sedimentary rocks in thin section -- 19. Conglomerates and breccias -- 20. Sandstones and arkoses -- 21. Greywackes -- 22. Argillaceous rocks -- 23. Limestones and dolomites -- 24. Cherts, iron formations, glauconitic sediments, phosphatic sediments, saline rocks, and coals -- 25. Metamorphic rocks -- 26. Dynamic metamorphism -- 27. Thermal metamorphism -- 28. Regional metamorphism -- 29. Metasomatism -- 30. Petrography of ore
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- 9780060446109
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- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 M78t
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An introduction to crystallography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25663
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Phillips, F. C.
- Publisher
- London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
- Call Number
- 03 P54a
- Author
- Phillips, F. C.
- Publisher
- London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 340 pages : 535 diagrams
- Subjects
- Crystallography
- Geology
- Science
- Contents
- 1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit
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- 2021.20
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- 03 P54a
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Intoduction to the structure of the earth
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25668
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1969
- Author
- Spencer, Edgar W.
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw Book Company
- Call Number
- 03 S3i
- Author
- Spencer, Edgar W.
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw Book Company
- Published Date
- 1969
- Physical Description
- 597 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses
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- 2021.20
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- 03 S3i
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Karst landforms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25666
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Sweeting, Marjorie M.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press
- Call Number
- 03 S4k
- Author
- Sweeting, Marjorie M.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 362 pages
- Subjects
- karstology
- Hydrology
- Karst
- Geology
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Karst limestones -- 3. The solution of limestones -- 4. The landforms. Enclosed hollows of moderate dimensions : dolines -- 5. The superficial features of limestones : karren or lapies -- 6. Karst valleys -- 7. Water sinks and water swallows -- 8. Caves -- 9. Cave deposits -- 10. Poljes -- 11. Karst springs -- 12. Karst water and karst water tracing -- 13. Karst hydrology -- 14. Types of karst -- 15. Tropical karst -- 16. Other types of karst -- 17. The effect of the cyclic concept upon the knowledge of karst landforms -- 18. The aims and applications of karst landform study
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- 03 S4k
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Understanding the Banff spring hot springs through karst hydrogeology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25487
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Yonge, Chas
- Publisher
- Canmore : Charles J. Yonge
- Call Number
- 04 Y8u
- Author
- Yonge, Chas
- Publisher
- Canmore : Charles J. Yonge
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 104 pages ; 15 cm
- Subjects
- Karst
- Hydrogeology
- Caving
- Banff Hot Springs
- Geology
- Abstract
- Yonge explores the geology of the Canadian Rocky Mountains related to the development of hot springs and caves including Rats Nest Cave, Canmore. Furthermore, he dicusses the ecology of caves and the impact of human activity on them.
- Contents
- Hot springs in Canada, where do you find them? ; Rocky Mountain geology around Banff ; Geological setting of the Banff Hot Springs ; Sources and depth of the Banff thermal spring water ; Carbonate hot springs viewed as hypogene karst ; Hydogeology of the Rockies and Banff Hot Springs ; Flow nets developed along thrust faults ; Conduits developed along a thrust fault, nearby examples in Rats Nest Cave ; Hypogene recharge at the Banff Hot Springs: mechanisms and chemistry ; Epigene recharge; the invasion of cold, shallow ground water at Banf ; Age of the groundwater ; Spring elevation: relevance to the Late Wisconsin Glaciation ; Tufa deposits and tufa caves ; Cave formation by microbes: tufa spelenogensis ; The cave deposits (speleothems) ; Banff Hot Springs Summary ; Human activity in the vicinity of the Banff Hot Springs and the role of Banff National Park ; Hot Springs ecology ; Walking around: Geological points of interest
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- 9780987936936
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- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 04 Y8u
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