Bulletin, Issues 260-261U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - Geology |
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Page 545 - TAFF, JA Chalk of southwestern Arkansas, with notes on its adaptability to the manufacture of hydraulic cements. In Twenty-second Ann. Rept. US Geol. Survey, pt.
Page 304 - The Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, and the Chicago, Indiana, and Southern railroads also enter the area.
Page 493 - The geology of the road-building stones of Massachusetts, with some consideration of similar materials from other parts of the United States.
Page 500 - ... under existing commercial conditions. The necessity for making the mixture as cheaply as possible rules out of consideration a large number of materials which would be considered available if chemical composition was the only thing to be taken into account. Some materials otherwise suitable are too scarce; some are too difficult to pulverize. In consequence, a comparatively few combinations of raw materials are actually used in practice. In certain localities deposits of argillaceous (clayey)...
Page 11 - Contributions to Economic Geology for 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, respectively. These bulletins are prepared primarily with a view to securing prompt publication of the economic results of investigations made by the United States Geological Survey. They are designed to meet the wants of the busy man, and are so condensed that he will be able to obtain results and conclusions with a minimum expenditure of time and energy.
Page 502 - Such new natural-cement plant» as have been started within recent years have mostly been located in old natural-cement districts, where the accumulated reputation of the district would help to introduce the new brand. The only exceptions to this rule, indeed, were the Pembina plant in North Dakota, the Rossville plant in Georgia, and a plant in the State of Washington. Of these, the Pembina plant was established with the intention of making Portland cement, but the raw materials soon proved to be...
Page 500 - Obviously, too, we might expect to find perfect gradations in the artificialness of the mixture, varying from the one extreme where a natural rock of absolutely correct composition was used, to the other extreme where two or more materials, in nearly equal amounts, are required to make a mixture of correct composition.
Page 542 - ... from railroads that, in spite of the excellent rock shown at a few places, exploitation of this region is at present useless. Furthermore, throughout a considerable portion of this region the argillaceous limestones are cut out by overthrust faulting, the magnesian limestone resting upon the shales or still higher formations. But a single area can be mentioned in which the cement rocks are exposed within a reasonable distance of a railroad. Several miles north of Stokesville, the terminus of...
Page 7 - Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified into the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology; C, Systematic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and physics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous...
Page 446 - The aim of this paper is to present in advance of the full report a summary of what is known concerning the distribution, occurrence, development, production, character, and utilization of the oil and gas of the Independence quadrangle, Kansas. SKETCH OF THE REGION. Location. — The Independence quadrangle is in the southeastern part of Kansas, and includes an important part of the Kansas-Indian Territory oil and gas field. This field has an area of nearly 11,000 square miles and extends from Paola,...