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Wheeler Geologic Area Location within Colorado. The Wheeler Geologic Area is a highly eroded outcropping of layers of volcanic ash, located in the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado, United States. [1] It is about 10 miles east north-east of Creede. The ash is the result of eruptions from the La Garita Caldera approximately 25 million ...
The Wheeler Survey lasted until 1879, when the survey, along with the King and Powell Surveys, were terminated and their work was reorganized as the United States Geological Survey. Wheeler Peak in Nevada (part of the Great Basin National Park), Wheeler Peak in New Mexico (the state high point), and the scenic Wheeler Geologic Area in southern ...
Wheeler, West Virginia, an unincorporated community; Wheeler, Wisconsin, a village; Wheeler County (disambiguation) Wheeler Crest or Ridge, a ridge in Mono and Inyo Counties, California; Wheeler Dam, Alabama Wheeler Lake, the lake created by the dam; Wheeler Geologic Area, a protected area of Mineral County, Colorado; Wheeler Island, Connecticut
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George Montague Wheeler (October 9, 1842 – May 3, 1905) was an American pioneering explorer and cartographer and the leader of the Wheeler Survey, one of the major geographical surveys of the western United States in the late 19th century. Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century.
As such, the Wheeler Shale also represents a Konservat-Lagerstätten. [ 4 ] Together with the Marjum Formation and lower Weeks Formation , the Wheeler Shale forms 490 to 610 m (1,610 to 2,000 ft) of limestone and shale exposed in one of the thickest, most fossiliferous and best exposed sequences of Middle Cambrian rocks in North America.
The Painted Hills is a geologic site in Wheeler County, Oregon that is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument along with Sheep Rock and Clarno. It totals 3,132 acres (12.67 km 2 ) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon .