Mesa Verde National Park

Selected References

Breteritz, D. A. and Smith, J. E., 1987, Mesa Verde, the Green Table: in A Photographic and Comprehensive Guide to National Parkways - Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly and Hovenweep: Yandell, M. D., Casper, Wyoming: World-Wide Research and Publishing Company, p. 26-69.

Carrara, P. E., 2010, Description of Task and Background: U.S. Geological Survey, Geology and Environmental Change Science Center website. Available on-line at: http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/meve/.

Carrara, P. E., 2009, Preliminary map of landslide deposits in the Mesa Verde National Park area, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3090, scale 1:50,000.

Cobban, W. A., Merewether, E. A., Fouch, T. D., and Obradovich, J. D., 1994, Some Cretaceous shorelines in
the Western Interior of the United States, in Caputo, M. V. , Peterson, J. A., and Franczyk, K. J. ,
editors,, Mesozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, USA: Rocky Mountain Section, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Denver, CO, p. 393-414.

Condon, S. M., 1991, Geologic and structure contour map of the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation and adjacent areas, southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2083, scale 1:100,000.

Cyark.org, 2009. Mesa Verde: Cyark beta 3.0 Digitally Preserving and Sharing the World's Cultural Heritage: Cyarc.org website: Available online at: http://archive.cyark.org/mesa-verde-info.

Dorn, R. I. and Oberlander, T. M., 1982, Rock varnish: Progress in Physical Geography, v. 6, p. 317-366.

Garvie, L. A. J., Burt, D. M., and Buseck, P. R., 2008, Nanometer-scale complexity, growth, and diagenesis in desert varnish: Geology, v. 36, no. 3, p. 215-218.

Gomez, V. L., 2005, Tourism and Preservation in Gateway Communities: A Case Study of the Towns Surrounding Mesa Verde National Park: University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Masters thesis, 98 p.

Griffitts, M. O., 1990, Guide to the geology of Mesa Verde National Park: Mesa Verde Museum Association, 88 p.

Herold, J., 1961, Prehistoric Settlement and Physical Environment in the Mesa Verde Area: Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Anthropological Papers no. 53, 218 p.

Kauffman, E. G., 1977, Geological and biological overview. Western Interior Cretaceous basin: The Mountain Geologist, v. 14, p. 75-99.

Lim, A. B., 2009, Soft Capping of Archaeological Masonry Walls: Far View House, Mesa Verde National Park: University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation thesis, 185 p.

Lipke, W. D. and Varien, M. D., 1999, Chapter 9, Pueblo III (A.D. 1150-1300): in Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin: Colorado Council of Professional Archeologists, p. 290-352. Available on-line at: http://www.woodscanyon.net/Museum/Pueblo%20III/pIII.pdf.

National Park Service, 1996, Chaco Canyon: Historical Aspects: Chaco Culture National Historic Park, World Heritage website. Available on-line at :http://www.nps.gov/history/worldheritage/chachist.htm.

National Park Service, 2005, Geology of Mesa Verde: Mesa Verde National Park website. Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/meve/planyourvisit/upload/geology_web.pdf.

National Park Service, 2006, Mesa Verde National Park Geologic Resource Evaluation Report: Denver, Colorado: Geologic Resources Division, Natural Resource Program Center, Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR-2006/015, 29 p. Available 0n-line at: http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/inventory/publications/reports/meve_gre_rpt_view.pdf.

National Park Service, 2010, Activity 3: Background Information, Ancestral Puebloan Chronology at Mesa Verde: Mesa Verde National Park, For Teachers website. Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/meve/forteachers/upload/ep_activity3_chronology.pdf.

National Park Service, 2009, Ancestral Puebloans and Their World: Mesa Verde National Park, For Teachers website. Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/meve/forteachers/upload/ancestral_puebloans.pdf.

MVMA, 1995, Cliff Palace 1995 Site Guide: Mesa Verde, Colorado: The Mesa Verde Museum Association (MVMA), Inc, booklet (available from the association).

MVMA, 1995b, Far View 1995 Site Guide: Mesa Verde, Colorado: The Mesa Verde Museum Association (MVMA), Inc., booklet (available from the association).

MVMA, 1995c, Spruce House 1995 Site Guide: Mesa Verde, Colorado: The Mesa Verde Museum Association (MVMA), Inc., booklet (available from the association).

Rossman, 2010, What is desert varnish? Pasadena, California, California Institute of Technology, Mineral Spectoscopy website. Available on-line at: http://minerals.caltech.edu/FILES/VARNISH/.

Smith, D. A., 2002, Mesa Verde National Park; shadows of the centuries. University Press of Colorado, revised edition, 275 p.

Uhler, J. W., 2007, Mesa Verde National Park Information Page: Hillclimb Media website. Available on-line at: http://www.mesa.verde.national-park.com/info.htm.

Wanek, A. A., 1954, Geologic map of the Mesa Verde area, Montezuma County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Map OM-152, scale 1:63,360.

Watson, D., 1954, Introduction to Mesa Verde: in Archeological Excavations in Mesa Verde National Park, Lancaster, J. A., Pinley, J. M., Van Cleave, P. F., and Watson, D., Washington, DC: National Park Service, Archeological Research Series Number 2. Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/archeology/2/contents.htm.

Yandell, M. D., 1987, A Photographic and Comprehensive Guide to Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly & Hovenweep: National Parkways and World-Wide Research and Publishing Company, 88 p.