Pathfinder #15:
Southwest geological collections at the Center:

A descriptive list

• 4 individual geological maps are accessible online, linked from the description of our general Southwest maps collection C 001 at http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/inventory/SWmaps.htm#GeolMaps
• The Delaney Library has a collection (C 008) of Southwest atlases, which include the published Geologic Atlases of the U.S., in 6 oversize flat boxes of oversize folio volumes of geological maps, circa 1890s, which must be handled with care b/c they're so brittle.  Shelved in room SW 166 on 34.3 - 34.7 (ask for them and give this shelf info to the Delaney Library staff).
• Collection C 004: Hayden Survey maps of Colorado and adjacent territory, mid-1870s (includes some digital images). Includes --20 maps in flat file drawer 2.30.  Maps from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Includes: Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory/ by F. V. Hayden, 1877 (containing topographic, geological and economic maps and panoramic views).
• Collection M 175, Series 7.3: Union Carbide Western Slope of Colorado maps (includes digital access to selected maps of Deremo Mine / Bigler-Deremo Mine (Dove Creek District; Uravan, Colo.)

• Two copies of a report by J. L. Borden entitled Geology of Animas River Canyon [1952?].  Cataloged in Talon with the oversized SW books.

• Collection I 019: U.S. geographical surveys west of 100th meridian records (RG 77) on microfilm.  2 rolls, in microfilm cabinet 4, drawer 4.  Contents: roll 1: name index to series 362, letters sent (1 volume); letters sent 1874-83 (7 volume).  Roll 2 starts with copies of letters sent by Wheeler 1878 Jan. 2; press copies of letters sent by Capt. Wheeler 1882-83 (1 volume); register of letters sent by Ogden, Utah, field office 1879 Jan.-Apr.; name index of letters received 1874-82 (1 volume); register of letters sent by Ogden office 1879 Jan.-April.  The National Archives microfilmed these records for the University of Utah Western History Center in April of 1969.
• Collection I 028: Hayden Survey records (RG 57) on microfilm. 21 rolls, in microfilm cabinet 5, drawer 8.  Records of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (National Archives microfilm publication M623).  See book in S.W. library (QE75.B9 no. 222) *Catalogue and Index of the Publications of the Hayden...Surveys*, 1904.
• Collection I 030: Powell Survey records (RG 57) on microfilm. 10 rolls, in microfilm cabinet 5, drawer 8.  Letters received by John Wesley Powell, Director of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (National Archives microfilm publication M156). The Survey was authorized by a joint resolution of Congress in 1868. Initially, the Survey largely explored the Colorado River. As federal appropriations increased, the scope of the project was broadened to include investigations of the region's geography, geology, ethnology, and natural sciences.  See catalog/ index QE75.B9 #222 in the Delaney Library.
• Collection I 031: U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) records (RG 57) on microfilm.  29 rolls, in microfilm cabinet 5, drawers 7 and.8.  Letters sent by the U.S.G.S.  (National Archives microfilm publication M152).  Indexed.  In 1879 Congress created the U.S.G.S., a natural extension of the Hayden, Powell, Wheeler and King surveys.  Operating in the western territories, the Survey classified public lands, studied geological structure and natural resources, and issued maps and publications.
• Collection I 008: Geology of the Grand Canyon on microfiche.    23 microfiche (ask for it in the Delaney Library), on shelf 38.8 of room SW 166. Annotated bibliography, and annotated catalog of Grand Canyon type fossils, with supplements and revisions; also, guide and index to published graphic and tabular data; these are microform publications 13, 14, 20 and 21 of The Geological Society of America.  Compiled by Earle E. Spamer.  Year span: 1857-1982.
• Collection I  096: Southwest Geological Studies reports, on 23 microfiche.  Includes reports on modes of uranium occurrences in Colorado Front Range by Robert H. Carpenter; detailed uranium hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of the Tallahassee Creek...in the northwestern part of the Pueblo Nims Quad, Colo., by Spencer S. Shannon, Jr.; hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of nure by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; engineering assessment of inactive uranium mill tailings, Durango site; geology...of the...Needle Mountains, southwestern Colorado…

• Collection F 033: Philip C. Schools geology collection (artifacts; ask a curator for access to these).  Rock specimens from the Southwestern and Northwestern United States.
• Collection F 024:  Southwest geology collection (artifacts; ask a curator for access to these).  Geological samples and specimens of the Southwest.  Includes a sample of green fused silicon produced in the first atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945.

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