Some geological features of the boulder batholith, Montana

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Title Some geological features of the boulder batholith, Montana
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Mines & Earth Sciences
Department Mining Engineering
Author Ralston, Edward L.
Date 1910
Description The majority of the large metalliferous mines of Montana are closely associated with the Boulder batholith, and yet no report of any extent has been made on the intrusion as a whole. Several small districts have been thoroughly studied and reported, but the great distances which separate those areas make the reports in question of little value in giving any idea of the batholith in its entirety. From personal experience the writers have come to feel that the absence of any fairly complete description of the batholith, as a whole, is a serious hinderance to any study that might be made of local mining districts. And it is with the intention of removing this handicap to as great an extent as lies in our power that we take up this work. Our interest in the district is due to several causes. First, is its tremendous richness for from the mines an this batholith has come more than two thirds of the wealth that places Montana ahead of all her sister states in value of metals produced. Then too, in this great mass of intrusive rocks are present the field examples of those great dynamical and structural problems which have seldom failed to excite a desire for a further knowledge.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Boulder batholith; Mines; Mining
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Bachelor of Science
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Edward L. Ralston
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 31,257,521 bytes
Identifier etd3/id/3119
ARK ark:/87278/s6ps146c
Setname ir_etd
ID 196687
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ps146c
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