ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR'S FOREWORD
PREFACE
MAPS
TIMELINE
Chapter 1. The Earth in Motion 1
Continental Drift 3
Plate Tectonics 6
The Restless Plates 14
The Aleutian Trench and Southern Alaska 32
Chapter 2. Geological History of Prince William Sound and Southern Alaska
Carboniferous and Permian Beginnings 46
The Birth and Development of Wrangellia 47
The Peninsular Terrane & Formation of the Superterrane 50
Cretaceous Collision and the Birth of the Chugach/Prince William Sound Terrane 56
The Paleocene Development of the Orca Group 60
Paleocene/Eocene Northward Movement of the Superterrane 66
Eocene Flight Northward 67
The Final Collision 69
Oligocene Plutonism 73
Miocene Uplift 74
Continued Pliocene Uplift 76
Pleistocene Glaciation 77
Holocene Retreat 79
Footnotes 82
Chapter 3. Observing Prince William Sound's Rocks
A. Introduction 86
B. Observing Prince William Sound's Volcanic Rocks 87
Pillow Basalts 87
Sheeted Dikes 89
Massive Flows 90
Ophiolites 91
C. Observing Plutonic Rocks 92
D. Observing Metamorphic Rocks 97
E. Observing Sedimentary Rocks
Turbidites 102
The Bouma Sequences 104
Conglomerates 107
Rip-Up 110
Sole Markings 111
Flute Casts 112
Tool Marks 112
Load Casts 115
Concretions 115
Fossils 117
Bedding 120
Folding and Faulting 121
Folds 122
Faults 123
F. Observing Ore Minerals in Prince William Sound 127
Chapter 4. Field Guide to the Rocks of Prince William Sound
I. Passage Canal Area 131
Whittier 132
Billings Glacier 132
Poe Valley 133
Port Wells 134
Lansing Mine 134
Ziegler Cove 135
Point Cochrane 136
South Arm of Surprise Cove 136
II. Port Wells and Harriman Fiord
Mineral King Mine 137
Granite Mine 138
Hobo Bay to Harrison Lagoon 139
Point Doran Peninsula 140
Harriman Glacier 140
Serpentine Cove 140
Coxe Glacier 141
Coghill Point 141
Golden 142
III. Northern Islands
Esther Island 142
Fisherman's Anchorage 144
East side of Esther Passage 144
Grommet Cove 144
Culross Island 145
Culross Bay 145
Culross Pluton 146
South Culross Passage 147
Perry Island Pluton 147
Lone Island 147
IV. Northern Sound
Squaw Bay 149
Contact Fault 149
Cascade Bay 150
Cow Pens Anchorage 150
Miners' Bay 151
Unakwik Mineralized Zone 152
Cedar Bay Pluton 153
Outpost Island 153
Naked, Peak and Storey I. 153
Bass Harbor 153
Glacier Island 154
Long Bay 155
Granite Cove 155
Great Nunatak 156
V. Valdez Area
Old Valdez 158
Ramsay-Rutherford Mine 160
Mineral Creek 160
Cliff Mine 162
Midas Mine 163
Jack Bay Fault 166
Sawmill Bay 168
Valdez Arm Conglomerates 168
Johnston Bay 168
Galena Bay 169
Galena Bay Mining Co. 173
Ellamar Mine 173
General Scenario 174
VI. Cordova Area
Tatitlek Narrows 176
Bligh Island 177
Boulder Bay 177
Bidarka Point 177
Landlocked Bay 177
Threeman Mine 179
Landlocked Bay Mining Co. 179
Hemple Prospect 179
Standard Copper Mines Co. 180
Landlocked Bay Fault 180
Fish Bay 180
Sunny Cove 181
Fidalgo Marble 181
Fidalgo Mining Co. Mine 181
Irish Cove 181
Porcupine Point 181
Sheep Bay Pluton 181
Comfort Cove 182
Simpson Bay 183
Bomb Point 183
Cordova 183
Eyak Ridge 183
Point Whitshed 184
Canoe Passage 184
Cedar Bay 184
VII. Montague Belt
Double Bay 187
Johnstone Point 187
Shelter Bay 187
Deer Cove 187
Port Etches 187
Garden Cove 187
Zaikov Harbor and Rocky Bay 187
Green Island 188
Gibbon Anchorage 189
Stockdale Harbor 189
Point Gilmore 189
Hanning Bay 190
MacLeod Harbor 190
Patton Bay Fault 190
VIII. Knight Island Group 193
Point Eleanor 195
Lower Passage 195
Drier Bay 195
Port Audrey 196
Squire Island Anchorage 196
Little to Mummy Bay 196
Discovery Point 196
The Pandora Group 197
Rua Cove Mine 197
Bay of Isles 197
IX. Southwest Islands 199
Sleepy Bay 199
Latouche Island 200
Wilson Bay 200
Latouche 200
Powder Point 202
The Beatson Fault 202
Elrington Island 202
Fox Farm Anchorage 202
Evans Island 203
Shelter Bay 203
Bainbridge Fault 203
Hogg Bay Conglomerates 203
Minke Cove 203
Orca Cove 203
X. Western Sound 204
Kake Cove 205
Dangerous Passage 205
Chenega Island 205
Eshamy Pluton 206
Granite Bay 206
Point Nowell 206
Main Bay 207
Port Nellie Juan 207
Nellie Juan Pluton 207
Deep Water Bay 207
Greystone Bay 207
Kings Bay 207