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Show o Here is what a noted geologist calls "a geological scoop": The scattered scat-tered mountain ranges of Utah and Nevada were being formed as recently rec-ently as the time when the earlier glaciers spread over the northern states. This "scoop" as it is termed by Dr. John W. Finch, dean of the Idaho School of Mines, is only one of at least 14 notable new contributions contribu-tions to established knowledge of Idaho &nd Utah geology contained in a remarkable new technical bulletin bulle-tin writen by Dr. Alfred L. Anderson, Ander-son, (assistant professor of the University Uni-versity of Idaho School of Mines. The work was highly praised by Dr. Edson S. Bastin, professor of economic eco-nomic geology at the University of Chicago; that institution accepted the research report as a thesis and granted Dr. Anderson the degree of Ph. D. last week. That the Rocky Mountain province prov-ince really extends much farther west than was formerly believed, is proved by Dr. Anderson's findings in the) 2000 square miles next to the Idaho-Utah border in Cassia county. This area is on the border between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin, two regions which have had distinctly different geologic histories |