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Title: Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota : and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory : made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 Norwood, Joseph Granville. 1807-1895 Parry, Charles Christopher. 1823-1890 Pratten, Henry Shumard, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1820-1869 Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Dawson, H. B., former owner. DSI Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI United States. General Land Office United States. Department of the Treasury
Subjects: Geology Paleontology Botany Botany Plants Plants Birds Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ostrotion (slylina of Lesueur); including the more evenlybedded limestones of St. Louis, containing melonites muttipora, several speciesof Productus, Spirifer (bi-suladus ?), and reticulated corals of the generaJRetepuru and Finesielta. Sandstone, sometimes with small pebbles imbedded. Argillaceous, cherty, and marly partings. Locally hydraulic limestone. Cellular magnesian building-stone; locally with vermicular ramificationsand green particles disseminated. Containing reticulated corals aud (_ Terebrutukt Soyssii. Impure limestones, containing cavities lined with spars and geodes. ( Thin-bedded limestones with marly partings, containing Ar-chimedes; also brown calcareous beds, with cells lined withspars and impure limestones charged with minute Spirifers ;together with light gray limestones, containing TerebrutulaRoyssii, Orthis ambrucuium, &c. Gray, crystalline limestones, containing Spirifer striatum,S. cuspidatus, S. rotundatus, Productus punctatus, P.semireticidutus, &c.
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•m Cherty limestones of Kiokuck. Brown encrinital limestones alternating with bands ofchert, as near Hannibal. ^ White crystalline and semiotilitic limestones, con-( taining Productus cora and Spirifer cuspidatus. Brown and flesh coloured encrinital limestones,containing several species of Pentremites, Pluty-crinus, Actinocrinus, and Poteriocrinus. Brown earthy crinoidal limestones with crys-talline specks.Band of cellular, buff, magnesian limestone.Oolitic limestone, containing Gyroceras Burling-tonensis. \ Dark gray argillaceous limestones (locally hy-( draulic?). i Buff, fine-grained siliceous rock, containing casts< of Chonetes, Posidonomyu, AUorisma, Spirifer,( Phillipsia. Ash-coloured, earthy marlites. ( Slope, rocks hidden by talus and5gs\ i alluvium of the. Mississippi River. CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONES OF IOWA. 93 No beds of coal have been discovered interlaminated with any of these groups.The lowest bed of coal observed lies fifteen or twenty feet above the upper surfaceof

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Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860; Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891; Norwood, Joseph Granville. 1807-1895; Parry, Charles Christopher. 1823-1890; Pratten, Henry; Shumard, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1820-1869; Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI; Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI; Dawson, H. B., former owner. DSI; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI; United States. General Land Office;

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