Word: shan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock, in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum. Mr. D. W. Johnson will read a thirty-minute paper on "The Tennessee Gorge at Chattanooga," and Professor W. M. Davis will read a twenty-minute report from Mr. Ellsworth Huntington on "The Physiography of the West Tian Shan Mountains," Mr. Huntington, who was a member of the Graduate School last year, accompanied Professor Davis on a trip to Turkestan during the past summer, and is at present in Persia. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Tennessee Gorge at Chattanooga (30 m.); Mr. D. W. Johnson. Report on the Physiography of the West Tian Shan Mountains (20 m.); Mr. E. Huntington. (Read by Professor Davis.) Geological Lecture Room...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Tennessee Gorge at Chattanooga (30 m.): Mr. D. W. Johnson. Report on the Physiography of the West Tian Shan Mountains (20 m.): Mr. E. Huntington. (Read by Professor Davis.) Geological Lecture Room...
...which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward to Western Siberia, whence he returned by rail to Moscow and St. Petersburg...
...archaeological and geographic study, which was led by Professor Raphael Pumpelly of Newport. The chief subjects of his geographic investigations were the elevated shore lines of the Caspian Sea, the extensive river-plains of central Turkestan, and the terraces and glacial deposits among the western ranges of the Tian Shan mountain system. The furthest point reached by Professor Davis was Lake Issikkul in North-Eastern Turkestan, whence he returned through Western Siberia and St. Petersburg. Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, for-two years a graduate student, accompanied Professor Davis as Carnegie Research Assistant and remains in Asia to continue the studies begun...