Color print, mounted on linen. The map portrays the Gold Hill district in Rowan and Cabarrus counties and shows the locations of mines, roads, railroads, houses, churches, ferries, cities and towns, stores, mills, county boundaries, and waterways. The composition of the underlying rock in the area (granite, slate, diorite, gabbro, and greenstone) is indicated by colors that are explained in a legend appearing in the lower right corner of the map. Cross sections of the rock strata are found at the bottom of the map below the neat line. Oriented with north to the upper left.
Accompanied Laney's thesis, The Gold Hill Mining District of North Carolina, presented to Yale University for the degree of doctor of philosophy in June 1908.
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