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Identifier: geologyagricultu05loui (find matches)
Title: Geology and agriculture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Louisiana Geological Survey Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Baton Rouge
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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be found. Hay7iesville.—Around Haynesville the topographic relief isnot so great as farther east. Gray sands and clays occur in theroad cuts, and gravel crops out on the hillsides. Homer.—Six miles northwest of Homer on the Honier-Haynesville road the light gray sands of the Gordon region arereplaced by red lands. These red lands occur with scarcely aninterruption to Homer. At Homer the railroad cut shows 18feet of light yellow to white strongly cross-bedded sands with
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11) General Geology : Jackson Eocene 89 horizontal layers of. white cla)- pebbles, and near the top, someiron concretions. The red lands with very marked topographic relief continuefor about 6 miles from Homer, on the Homer-Minden road.The iron concretions then commence to be conglomeritic, andabout 8 miles from Homer large quartz pudding-stones are quitenumerous. The first really noticeable alluvial valley is that ofCrow creek which is about half a mile wide. Judging from thefields seen here it seems capable of producing good oats. (Union Parish) The northern part of Union parish is very heavily coveredwith sands in part belonging to the underlying Eocene strataand in part to the Lafayette gravels which are found over manyof the hillsides. Very fine exposures of red and white sands areto be seen in the deep gullies around Walnut home and Wal-laces store. On the eastern side of the parish is a low strip of pine flats,presumably belonging to the Port Hudson period. These arewell develo

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