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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982413
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Two of the most distinctive natural features of the Southwest are mountains and water. Both are fiercely loved, and both are often exploited. Harold Bell Wright, sometime Tucson resident and the best-selling U.S. author of the 1920s, opened his novel The Mine with the Iron Door (1923) with a paean to the mountains and a caution about the water:
From every street and corner in Tucson we see the mountains. From our places of business, from our railway depots and hotels, from our University campus and halls, and from the windows and porches of our homes we look up to the mighty hills. But of all the peaks and ranges that keep their sentinel posts around this old pueblo there are none so bold in the outlines of their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/530/image/coversmallPublishing the Southwest2026-02-12text/htmlen-USPublishing the Southwest2026-02-122026TWOProject MUSE®55692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-12Introduction to George H. Davis's Essay on Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982414
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For much of southern Arizona, the Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains mark Tucson's location, even from afar. The ranges tower over the city's urban landscape, defining its geographical setting. The closer one gets, the more domineering the mountains' looming presence becomes.The prominence of the Catalinas comes not merely from their size, for several ranges in southern Arizona reach greater heights, but also from their broken physical relief visible from close up. From afar, both the Catalinas and the Rincons present a domelike presence. Up closer, the mountains' rocky sharp-edged ridges; wide-ranging sills; precipitous faults; deep crevices; massive dikes; boulders—bulbous, columnar, jointed, sheer, flat, sharp
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/530/image/coversmallIntroduction to George H. Davis's Essay on Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems2026-02-12text/htmlen-USIntroduction to George H. Davis's Essay on Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems2026-02-122026TWOProject MUSE®212552026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-12Looking Back at the Discovery of Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems in Tucson, Arizona, and Beyond
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982415
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Northwest-directed view of the Catalina Mountains. The shape and sharpness of this mountain profile resemble half of an arrowhead. This is the classic slanted geometry of a metamorphic core complex, created by intense shearing and faulting of once-deep granite. The skyline slope matches that of the orientation of shearing and coincides with the position and orientation of the Catalina detachment fault, which is a punctuation to the shearing that helped tectonically stretch the crust of southern Arizona. Photograph by G.H. Davis.It is remarkable how serendipitously the present state of knowledge evolved.This saga is an inside look at a sustained field-geological assault within the Basin and Range Province of western
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/530/image/coversmallLooking Back at the Discovery of Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems in Tucson, Arizona, and Beyond2026-02-12text/htmlen-USLooking Back at the Discovery of Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems in Tucson, Arizona, and Beyond2026-02-122026TWOProject MUSE®4810212026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-12Field Guide to Metamorphic Core-Complex Geology, Catalina and Rincon Mountains, Tucson, Arizona
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982416
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This field guide intimately connects with the preceding companion article in this volume, "Looking Back at the Discovery of Metamorphic Core-Complex Mountain Systems in Tucson, Arizona, and Beyond." This guide provides maps, figures, and explanations that permit experiencing metamorphic core-complex geology on the ground in and around Tucson (Figure 1). There are guidebooks for professional geologists (e.g., Spencer, 2006, 2023; Davis, Spencer et al., 2019), but what I have in mind here is something different. The goal is to have non-geologists go out and see mountain flanks, rocks, and structures that together capture the attributes of core-complex properties. Non-geologists interested in using this guide will
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/530/image/coversmallField Guide to Metamorphic Core-Complex Geology, Catalina and Rincon Mountains, Tucson, Arizona2026-02-12text/htmlen-USField Guide to Metamorphic Core-Complex Geology, Catalina and Rincon Mountains, Tucson, Arizona2026-02-122026TWOProject MUSE®621522026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-12Early Pump Irrigation and Regulation in Arizona
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982417
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Groundwater plays an increasingly important role in meeting human demands for agricultural products.1 Groundwater provides a reliable supply during times of drought when rainfall, runoff, or reservoir water is unavailable. Moreover, its use facilitates the extension of agriculture into places otherwise too arid, too remote, or too expensive to farm with surface water. In many of the world's arid lands, pump irrigation is associated with declining groundwater levels.2 This has led to widespread recognition of the need for improved groundwater governance.Declining groundwater levels became apparent in Arizona long before World War II. Because Arizona has struggled with groundwater governance longer than most other
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/530/image/coversmallEarly Pump Irrigation and Regulation in Arizona2026-02-12text/htmlen-USEarly Pump Irrigation and Regulation in Arizona2026-02-122026TWOProject MUSE®1238452026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-12