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Remarkable West American Fossil, The Blue Lake Rhino, George F. Beck
Remarkable West American Fossil, The Blue Lake Rhino, George F. Beck
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Bidding for acceptance as fact, and for its place in the sun of fame and notoriety, we come now to the newly discovered fossil rhino animal mold of Blue Lake in Grand Coulee, central Washington. Not that fossil rhinos are rare or that their abundance in the Tertiary of America has waited until the present for revelation, is this fossil important. The feature in the Blue Lake rhino which taxes our credulity is the existence of the thing in what unquestionably must pass as once liquid basaltic lava. That anything organic could pass through the terrific heat and pressure of …
Formations Of The Columbia Basin, Parade Of Extinct Mammals, George F. Beck
Formations Of The Columbia Basin, Parade Of Extinct Mammals, George F. Beck
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In this preliminary chart are shown the extinct mammals encountered as fossils in the various formations among and above the great Columbia Basalt series of the Pacific Northwest. A few shown as appearing in the Lake Vantage horizon of the basalts.
Camels Of The Columbia Plateau, George F. Beck
Camels Of The Columbia Plateau, George F. Beck
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However foreign they may seem to us the camels are one of our oldest American stocks. Our Western plains once supported large herds of them, humped and humpless, large and small, giraffe-necked and normal-necked. For some 35 million years, from Oligocene to the Pliocene, the camels were confined to North America and it was not until recently, geologically speaking that we shared the race with the Old World.
Fossil Bearing Basalts (More Particularly The Yakima Basalt Of Central Washington), George F. Beck
Fossil Bearing Basalts (More Particularly The Yakima Basalt Of Central Washington), George F. Beck
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Such an overwhelming majority of the floral and faunal remains of the earth's crust have been yielded by rocks of sedimentary origin that generalized statements concerning the occurrence of fossils often neglect their more rare appearance in metamorphic and igneous rocks. In fact there is the temptation, after volcanic tuffs have been excluded as more or less sedimentary, to venture the positive assertion that by their very character igneous rocks are incapable of recording the presence of the life which may have existed at the time of their extrusion. As a result, most that has been written concerning fossil floras …
Arrowhead Making In The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, George F. Beck
Arrowhead Making In The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, George F. Beck
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In a sense we must give the Indians credit for being the original discoverers of these fossil forests of Central Washington. Not that I have been able to run down any legends or traditions regarding fossil logs or any certainty that the Indians recognized them as trees in stone. My opinion is that they could not have failed to recognize them as trees. Be that as it may, they long ago took recognition of the fact that certain logs were to be prized as the source of flint for their arrow-heads.