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Show - U. OF U. NEWS BUREAU The University of Utah has many d:stinct advantages for offering one of the best courses in mining and gelogy in the country, according to Prof. Wm. M. Davis, noted geologist and lecturer from Harvard University, Univer-sity, who has been spending the last week lecturing in Salt Lake and inspecting the formations in this vicinity. vi-cinity. According to Mr. Davis, "The University Uni-versity of Utah is extremely fortunate. fortu-nate. In the first place, there are a great variety of rocks both crystalline crystal-line and stratifield available for field study at short distances from the University; in the second place, the stratified layers of rocks seen contain con-tain a great variety of fossils demonstrating dem-onstrating formations which represent repre-sent many successive chapters of geological time; in the third place, the total rock mass including crystalline crys-talline foundation rock as well as a heavy cover of stratified rocks has been tremendously deformed in different dif-ferent ways at different times; providing pro-viding a wonderful variety of rock structure for examination; in the fourth place, these deformed structures struc-tures have been elaborately carved by various destructive agencies including in-cluding not only stream erosion by which valleys of mountain ranges have been excavated, but also the more special forms in the higher mountains and also of the wave erosion ero-sion which although of moderate amount is marvellously exhibited in the now abandoned shore lines of the ancient Lake Bonneville; in ttf? fourth place, by virtue of the great deformation and deep erosion of the mountain masses there are mineral deposits of great economic value ex- j;, ":- - national parties. |