View west toward Grand Teton on skyline. Hedrick’sPond surrounded by “knob and kettle”topography is in foreground, tree-covered BurnedRidge moraine is in middle distance, and extendingfrom it to foot of mountains is gray flat treelessglacial outwash plain. National Park Servicephoto by W. E. Dilley.
View west up Cascade Canyon, with north face ofMt. Owen in center. National Park Servicephoto by H. D. Pownall.
To Fritiof M. Fryxell, geologist, teacher,
writer, mountaineer, and the first ranger-naturalist
in Grand Teton National Park.
All who love and strive to understand
the Teton landscape follow in his footsteps.
CREATION OF THE
TETON LANDSCAPE
The Geologic Story of
Grand Teton National Park
By
J. D. LOVE AND JOHN C. REED, JR.
U.S. Geological Survey
Library of Congress Catalogue Card No.: 68-20628
ISBN O-931895-08-1
1st Edition
1968
1st Revised Edition
1971
Reprinted 1979
Reprinted 1984
Reprinted 1989
Grand Teton Natural History Association
Moose, Wyoming 83012
CONTENTS
- Foreword 6
- THE STORY BEGINS 8
- First questions, brief answers 9
- An extraordinary story 10
- An astronaut’s view 12
- A pilot’s view 14
- A motorist’s view 15
- View north 15
- View west 18
- View south 19
- A mountaineer’s view 20
- CARVING THE RUGGED PEAKS 24
- Steep mountain slopes—the perpetual battleground 24
- Rock disintegration and gravitational movement 24
- Running water cuts and carries 26
- Glaciers scour and transport 28
- Effects on Jackson Hole 30
- MOUNTAIN UPLIFT 36
- Kinds of mountains 36
- Anatomy of faults 38
- Time and rate of uplift 40
- Why are mountains here? 41
- The restless land 43
- ENORMOUS TIME AND DYNAMIC EARTH 45
- Framework of time 45
- Rocks and relative age 45
- ...