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III.—An Excursion to the Volcanoes of Nevado de Toluca and Jorullo in Mexico2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Bernard Hobson
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Petrology and Geology in the Victoria University of Manchester.

Extract

In connection with the meeting of the Tenth International Geological Congress in the city of Mexico, an excursion, known as the Jorullo Excursion, was organised, of which the following is an account:—

Nevado de Toluca.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1907

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Footnotes

2

For most of the facts in this paper I am indebted to two papers, “Le Xinantecatl ou Volcan Nevado de Toluca,” par T. Flores, and “Le Jorullo,” par E. Ordóñez, both forming part of the “Guide des Excursions du Xe Congrès Géologique International, Mexico, 1906.” An excellent general map of Mexico on which the route of the excursion can be followed is the “Carte du Mexique. Dressée an dépôt de la Guerre,” par Mr. Niox, scale = 47·34 miles to 1 inch, date 1873, price 1 franc plus postage, from II. Barrère, 21, Rue du Bac, Paris. Of railways it shows only one, but the railways up to date are shown on Rand, McNally, & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World, Map of Mexico, scale 72 miles to 1 inch.

References

page 6 note 1 See Plate II, Fig. 2.

page 6 note 2 See Piate II, Fig. 3.

page 6 note 3 “Bosquejo Geologico de Mexico”: Boletines del Instituto Geolégico de Mexico, Nos. 4, 5, and 6, p. 229.

page 8 note 1 Humboldt mentions guavas (Psidium pyriferum), a fan-palm (Curypha pumos) now called Copernicia pumos, and an alder (Alnus Jorullensis) at the Playas de Jorullo.

page 8 note 2 “Kosmos”: J. G. Cotta'sche Verlag, Stuttgart, vol. iv (1858), pp. 334–348, and English translation by Otté & Dallas, Bonn's Library, 1865, vol. v, pp. 308–323.

page 9 note 1 Loc. cit.

page 11 note 1 Loc. Cit., p. 36.

page 11 note 2 For details see the paper by Ordóñez already mentioned.

page 12 note 1 I translate from the German edition of “Kosmos,” vol. iv, pp. 340, 341 (J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart, 1858); English version (Bolm's, 1860), vol. v, p. 317.

page 12 note 2 “Kosmos,” vol. iv, pp. 340, 336.

page 12 note 3 Loc. cit., p. 42.

page 12 note 4 Loc. cit., p. 22.

page 13 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 23.

page 13 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 41.