-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Historic atlases now online Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:59:21 -0700 From: Linda P Newman <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> Folks, we are very pleased to announce the addition of 2 significant works to our Historic Nevada geologic and mining maps collection on line: http://www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/digitalcollections/nvmaps/histgeo.html */Geological History of Lake Lahontan/*/, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada/. 1885, Israel Cook Russell. USGS Monograph XI . The famous plate from this volume has been on our site for some time; we now offer the full volume . Also added just yesterday to the same site [link above] is the complete *Atlas* accompanying the /US Geological Exploration Survey of the Fortieth Parallel,/ 1876. Clarence King. And Plate XIV *Geological map of the Steamboat Springs District*. /In /Atlas to accompany a monograph on the geology of the Quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope. George F. Becker. US Geological Survey Monograph XIII, Washington, 1887. Linda Newman, Geoscience & Map Librarian Glee Willis, Digital Projects Vicki Toy-Smith, Metadata Librarian Araby Greene, Library Web Master