First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming Topographic Map tectonic plate collisions

tectonic plate collisions

regional ash-flow tuffs are locally involved in a large gravity slide shed off the Granite Mountain laccolith

Ophir District

published in 2005 as UGS Map 214

they were the first white men to enter the vast wilderness reaches of the Rockies in search of beaver "plews

First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming Topographic Map tectonic plate collisionsGreat Salt Lake is a celebrated, world recognized natural landmark. It, and the broader region bound to it, is also a thoroughly cultural landscape; generations of peoples made their lives there. In an eminently readable narrative, Steven Simms, one of the foremost archaeologists of the region, traces the scope of human history dating from the Pleistocene, when First Peoples interacted with the lapping waters of Lake Bonneville, to nearly the present