 | Geological Survey of California - 1865 - 578 Seiten
...from which the tar is issuing, and letting it fill up. A very large amount of the hardened asphaltum, mixed with sand and the bones of cattle and birds...without success, at least in a pecuniary point of view. The plain on which Los Angeles is situated is celebrated for its beauty and fertility, as well as for... | |
 | Geological Survey of California - 1865 - 558 Seiten
...from which the tar is issuing, and letting it fill up. A very large amount of the hardened asphaltum, mixed with sand and the bones of cattle and birds...without success, at least in a pecuniary point of yjew. The plain on which Los Angeles is situated is celebrated for its beauty and fertility, as well... | |
 | 1904 - 304 Seiten
...the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. Annual report of Chief of Engineers, 1876. Appendix JJ. Eeport on the geology of a portion of southern California ; by Jules Marcou. Idem, Appendix HI, pp. 378-392. This report contains articles on the Pliocene rocks of Los Angeles... | |
 | Anthony Wayne Vogdes - 1893 - 20 Seiten
...of Nevada, Utah, California and Arizona examined in the years 1871-2, by GK Gilbert. Report of 1876. Report on the Geology of a portion of Southern California, by Jules Marcou. pp. 378-419. Report on the Geology of the Mountain Ranges from La Veta Pass to Head of the Pecos,by... | |
 | Anthony Wayne Vogdes - 1896 - 142 Seiten
...Wheeler, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. Annual report of Chief of Engineers. 1876. Appendix JJ. Report on the geology of a portion of Southern California; by Jules Marcou. Idem, Appendix Hj, pp. 378-392. This report contains articles on the Pliocene rocks of Los Angeles... | |
 | 1907 - 808 Seiten
...lies scattered over the pla'n. Before 1800 the experiment of shipping it to San Francisco for tlie purpose of distilling burning oil from it had been...a portion of southern California, by Jules Marcou ;° a paper on the petroleum, asphaltum, and natural gas of California, by WA Goodyear,6 and a paper... | |
 | Charles Richard Van Hise, Charles Kenneth Leith - 1909 - 956 Seiten
...work, from 18<>0 to 1864, by JD Whitney. Geol. Survey California, vol. 1, Geology, 1805, pp. 498. "" Report on the geology of a portion of southern California, by Jules Marcou. Rept. Chief of Kng. for 1876, pt. 3, pp. 378-392. 108 Report on the geological and mineralogical character... | |
 | Oliver Perry Hay - 1927 - 390 Seiten
...out of the ground in numerous places. He stated that a very large amount of the hardened asphaltum, mixed with sand and the bones of cattle and birds...become entangled in it, lies scattered over the plain. It seems possible that these bones were those of recent birds and of wild and domestic mammals, but... | |
 | Southern California Academy of Sciences - 1905 - 878 Seiten
...those of wild domestic animals. He describes the bony deposit as "a very large amount of asphaltum, mixed with sand and the bones of cattle and birds which have become 'entangled in it." The earliest known record of this tarry deposit is that of a Spanish padre missionary, who reported... | |
 | Southern California Academy of Sciences - 1909 - 878 Seiten
...those of wild domestic animals, lie describes the bony deposit as "a very large amount of asphaltum, mixed with sand and the bones of cattle and birds which have become entangled in it." The earliest known record of this tarry deposit is that of a Spanish padre missionary, who reported... | |
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A very large amount of the hardened asphaltuin, mixed with sand and the bones of cattle and birds, which have become entangled in it, lies scattered over the plain. Before 1860 the experiment of shipping it to San Francisco for the purpose of distilling... 