 Sands and some clay are inU-rbedded with the stream gravels, forming, however, but a small percentage of the bulk of the alluvium. In all the smaller streams and in parts of the larger ones a bed of clay or sandy clay, in which more or less vegetable...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 1641907Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Joseph Hartshorn Perry - Geology - 1907 - 700 pages
...forming, however, but a small percentage of the bulk of the alluvium. In all the smaller streams and in parts of the larger ones a bed of clay or sandy...appears to be a subaerial accumulation, due in part tb the decay of vegetable matter and in part to the deposition of silts during the rainy season. Though... | |
 | Sidney Paige, Adolph Knopf - Geology - 1907 - 614 pages
...forming, however, but a small percentage of the bulk of the alluvium. In all the smaller streams and in parts of the larger ones a bed of clay or sandy...intermingled, forms the topmost layer. This surface bed, which is called " tundra "' by the miners, ranges in thickness from 2 to 30 feet and appears to be a subaerial... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1908 - 388 pages
...forming, however, but a small percentage of the bulk of the alluvium. In all the smaller streams and in parts of the larger ones a bed of clay or sandy...intermingled, forms the topmost layer. This surface bed, which is called " tundra '' by the miners, ranges in thickness from 2 to 30 feet and appears to be a subaerial... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1910 - 278 pages
...a recent publication on the hill slopes of the Dahl Creek regicn on Kougarok River, states the muck to be a subaerial accumulation, due in part to the...to the deposition of silts during the rainy season. Against this hypothesis may be urged the fact that the silts sometimes occur at long distances from... | |
 | Geology, Economic - 1911 - 730 pages
...recent publication on the hill slopes of the Dahl Creek regicn on K»ugarok River, states the muck to be a subaerial accumulation, due in part to the...to the deposition of silts during the rainy season. Against this hypothesis may be urged the fact that the silts sometimes occur at long distances from... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1913 - 178 pages
...recent description of the hill slopes of the Dahl Creek region on Kaugarok River, states the " muck " to be " a subaerial accumulation due in part to the decay of vegetable matter, in part to the deposition of silts during the rainy season." This idea was not put forward as a general... | |
 | Alfred Geddes Maddren - Geology - 1913 - 488 pages
...recent description of the hill slopes of the Dahl Creek region on Kaugarok River, states the " muck " to be " a subaerial accumulation due in part to the decay of vegetable matter, in part to the deposition of silts during the rainy season." This idea was not put forward as a general... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1919 - 512 pages
...layer not over a foot in thickness, but it may be as much as 8 feet. Brooks J states that muck may be "a subaerial accumulation, due in part to the decay of vegetable matter, in part to the deposition of silts during the rainy season." Moffit.2 from extended studies at Nome,... | |
 | Geology - 1949 - 1012 pages
...forming, however, but a small percentage of the bulk of the alluvium. In all the smaller streams and in parts of the larger ones a bed of clay or sandy...intermingled, forms the topmost layer. This surface bed, which is called " tundra " by the miners, ranges in thickness from 2 to 30 feet and appears to be a subaerial... | |
 | Mineral industries - 1908 - 648 pages
...Underwriters. In all the smaller streams and in parts of the larger ones on Seward Peninsula, Alaska, a bed of clay or sandy clay, in which more or less...intermingled, forms the topmost layer This surface bed, which is called "tundra" by the miners, ranges in thickness from 2 to 30 ft. and appears to be a subaerial... | |
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