Tombstone and the Tombstone Hills
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references on the geology of
Tombstone and the Tombstone Hills

 

*Arizona Mining Journal, 1926, Discovery of the Tombstone, Arizona district: Ariz. Min. Jour., v.10, no.4, p. 9.

*Blake, W.P., 1882, Porphyry dike, Tombstone district, Arizona: Engr. Min. Jour., v.34, p. 29-30.

*Blake, W.P., 1882, The geology and veins of Tombstone, Arizona: Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Trans., v.10, p. 334-345.

*Blake, W.P., 1902, Tombstone and its mines: a report upon the past and present condition of the mines of Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona to the Development Company of America, N.Y., 83 p.

*Blake, W.P., 1904, Tombstone and its mines: A.I.M.E. Trans., v.34, p. 668-670.

*Brinsmade, R.B., 1907, Tombstone, Arizona, restored: Mines and Minerals, v.27, no.8, p. 371-374.

*Butler, B.S., and Wilson, E.D., 1937, Structural control of ore deposits at Tombstone, Arizona (abstr.): Econ. Geol., v.32, p.196-197.

*Butler, B.S., and Wilson, E.D., 1938, Structural control of the ore deposits of Tombstone, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull 145, p.104-110.

*Butler, B.S., and Wilson, E.D., 1942, Ore deposits at Tombstone, Arizona: in- Ore Deposits as Related to Structural Features, Princeton Univ. Press, p. 201-203.

*Butler, B.S., Wilson, E.D., and Rasor, C.A., 1938, Geology and ore deposits of the Tombstone district: Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 114 p.

*Chronic, H., 1983, Roadside Geology of Arizona: Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana, p. 99.

*Church, J.A., 1882, The geology and veins of Tombstone, Arizona: Engr. Min. Jour., v.33, p.218-219 and 313.

*Church, J.A., 1903, The Tombstone Arizona mining district: Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Trans., v.33, p. 3-37.

*Clarke, F.W., 1914, Water analysis from the 1,000-foot level, Contention mine, Tombstone, Arizona: U.S.G.S. Water Supply Paper 364, p. 39.

*Devere, J., 1960, The Tombstone bonanza, 1878-1886: Arizona, v.1, no.3, p.16-20.

*Fletcher, J.E., 1959, Sedimentation investigations in Walnut Gulch Watershed, Arizona: Agricultural Research Service- Soil Conservation Workshop, Oxford, Miss.

*Force, E.R., 1996, The Bisbee Group of the Tombstone Hills, southeastern Arizona; stratigraphy, structure, metamorphism, and mineralization: U.S.G.S. Bull. B2042, p. B1-B22.

*Gilluly, J. 1945, Emplacement of the Uncle Sam porphyry, Tombstone, Arizona: Am. Jour. Sci., v.243, p. 643-666.

*Gilluly, J. 1956, General geology of central Cochise County, Arizona; USGS Prof. Paper 287, 169 p.

*Goodale, C.W., 1889, The occurrence and treatment of the argentiferous manganese ores of Tombstone district, Arizona: A.I.M.E. Trans., v.17, p.767-774 and v.18, p. 910-912 (1890).

*Goodale, C.W., 1927, Reminiscences of early days in Tombstone: Ariz. Min. Jour., v.10, no.23, p.3-4, and 60-62.

*Hagstrum, J.T., Lipman, P.W., and Moore, R.B., 1994, Late Cretaceous paleomagnetism of the Tombstone District and vicinity; evidence for a rotational domain boundary in southeastern Arizona: Tectonics, v.13, no.5, p.1295-1308.

*Hollyday, E.F., 1963, A geohydrologic analysis of mine dewatering and water development, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona: M.S. thesis, University of Arizona, 90 p.

*Kellogg, A.E., 1930, Ed Schiefflin, the founder of Tombstone: Min. Jour., v.14, no.12, p. 7-8.

*Lakes, A., 1904, Ore in anticlines, as at Bendigo, Australia and Tombstone, Arizona: Min. Sci. Press, v.88, p.193.

*Lee, L. Courtland, 1967, The economic geology of portions of the Tombstone-Charleston district, Cochise County, Arizona in light of 1967 silver economics; M.S. thesis, University of Arizona, 99 p.

*Needham, A.B., and Storms, W.R., 1956, Investigation of Tombstone district manganese deposits, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines RI 5188, 34 p.

*Newell, R.A., 1974, Exploration geology and geochemistry of the Tombstone-Charleston area, Cochise County, Arizona: Ph.D., Stanford, Calif., Stanford University, 205 p.

*Patch, Susan, 1969, Petrology and stratigraphy of the Epitaph Dolomite (Permian) in the Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona: M.S. thesis, University of Arizona, 42 p.

*Ransome, F.L., 1920, Deposits of manganese ore in Arizona: Bisbee and Tombstone districts: USGS Bull. 710, p. 96-119.

*Rasor, C.A., 1937, Mineralogy and petrography of the Tombstone mining district, Arizona: Ph.D., University of Arizona, 115 p.

*Rasor, C.A., 1938, Mineralogy and petrography of the Tombstone mining district, Arizona(abstr.): Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, p. 50-66.

*Rasor, C.A., 1938, Bromyrite from Tombstone, Arizona: Am. Mineral., v.23, p.157-159.

*Rasor, C.A., 1939, Manganese mineralization at Tombstone, Arizona: Econ. Geol., v.34, p. 790-803.

*Shaw, S.F., 1909, Mining and milling in Tombstone district, Arizona: Min. World, v.30, p.589-590.

*Spangler, D.P., 1969, A geophysical study of the hydrology of the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed, Tombstone, Arizona: Ph.D., University of Arizona, 103 p.

*Staunton, W.F., 1918, Effects of an earthquake at Tombstone, Arizona: Seismol. Soc. Am. Bull., v.8, p. 25-27.

*Tenney, J.B., 1938, Geology and ore deposits of the Tombstone District, Arizona: (review of paper by Butler, B.S., Wilson, E.D., and Rasor, C.A.): Econ. Geol., v.33, p. 675-678.

*Wilson, D.E., 1959, Mineral production of Arizona, gold, silver, lead, and zinc. Chart D-209. Tombstone District: Ariz. Bur. Mines, University of Arizona, open-file statistical chart.