Geologic Guidebook 3 - Highways of Arizona: Arizona Highways 85, 86, and 386

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Persons traveling over Arizona highways encounter an ever changing variety of scenery, geologic features, climate, vegetation, wild life, and conditions for human habitation and industry. All of these have a close relationship to the physiography and geology of the particular area. In passing through the region, the viewer of the landscape, particularly if a stranger, may want to know more about what he is seeing and what has happened. This road guide to a part of the southwestern Arizona desert is designed to answer at least some of such questions, by keying brief descriptions to points of interest in a sequential manner. The amount that a traveler can see depends largely on the speed of his transit. This guidebook is planned primarily for those who wish to take time to observe the general geologic setting and physiographic features, and to understand their effects on life in the region. effects on life in the region. The text, illustrations, and appendices are designed to provide a thumbnail sketch of what is there and what has, and is taking place. To those who wish to know more, the selected bibliography furnishes numerous references that may be explored. 80 p.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10150/629750

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https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AGSB-1552427325891-24

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Series/Report no.

Bulletin No. 183

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Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.

North Bounding Coordinate

33.599

South Bounding Coordinate

31.3564

West Bounding Coordinate

-113.423

East Bounding Coordinate

-111.423

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