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History of Geologic Mapping at the USGS

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Photograph of group of members of the 1870 U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey) in Wyoming field camp.

American scientist-explorers have been making geologic maps since before the Bureau's inception in 1879.

U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey). Members of the Survey, made while in camp at Red Buttes at the junction of the North Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, Wyoming, 1870.
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