 | Thomas Thornton Read - 1914 - 486 strani
...based upon present practice as it has crystallized in the light of years of experience. Bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, the region under discussion may be regarded as in part a southward extension of the Colorado plateau... | |
 | 1917 - 506 strani
...which embraces all that territory south of the 42nd degree of north latitude, and between the crest of the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west. As to the Province of New Mexico, when General Kearney and General Doniphan, in 184(i, occupied this... | |
 | George Rogers Mansfield, Leona Boardman - 1932 - 518 strani
...FOR OIL IK THE REGION There has been a persistent search for oil in that part of the United States between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west. Small production has been obtained at a dozen or more widely separated localities in western Wyoming,... | |
 | 1932 - 550 strani
...Cordilleran system is composed of many diverse structural and geographic parts. Its highest members to-day, the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, owe their present altitude to late Cenozoic uplifts. The central portions of the system were equally... | |
 | William Clinton Alden - 1932 - 268 strani
...Cordilleran system is composed of many diverse structural and geographic parts. Its highest members to-day, the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, owe their present altitude to late Cenozoic uplifts. The central portions of the system were equally... | |
 | Jayne Belnap - 2002 - 532 strani
...crusts has occurred in the western United States. This area lies between two major mountain masses, the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west. While over 200 mountain ranges exceeding 4000 m in elevation occur in this region, most of the area... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - 1864 - 144 strani
...elevated plateau which fills the intervening space between the confronting ranges of the Andes, known as the Rocky mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, may be said to contain the sources of this vast wealth. So far as is at present known, every stream... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1870 - 794 strani
...it is unnecessary to describe them in detail. RIVERS. — Thj great intra-mountain basin, formed by the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, and of which Nevada occupies a large portion, is comparatively waterless, and hence has sometimes been... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1863 - 808 strani
...elevated plateau which fills the intervening space between the confronting ranges of the Andes, known as the Rocky mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, may be said to contain the sources of this vast wealth. So far as is at present known, every stream... | |
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... between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines of Nevada. 
