Bulletin, Issues 208-212U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - Geology |
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andesite anticline appears Ascutney basalt Beaumont beds biotite Blue clay Cambrian Character Chemung Chonetes conglomerate correlation County Creek deposits described Devonian dikes drilled east eastern Egan Range erosion Eureka quartzite exposed farther fault fauna faunules feet feldspar fold Fortieth fossils geological Girty granite gravels gray Hamilton formation hills horizon hornblende IGNEOUS ROCKS intrusive Kansas Lacoe collection Lake Las Vegas Range lava limestone locality lower magma Meadow Valley Canyon miles mountains northern occur outcrop overlain overlying Paleozoic Peak petroleum Pleistocene Pliocene Pogonip portion probably Productus quartz quartzite region rhyolite ridge River sand sandstone Schell Creek Range schists sediments Sellards shales side siliceous Silurian southern end species specimens Spindletop Spirifer Spring strata stratigraphical structure Surv Survey syenite syncline Tertiary thickness tion tuffs U. S. Geol U. S. National Museum Upper Carboniferous Walcott western White writer zone
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Page 40 - Garnett limestones and therefore the term Carlyle limestone was introduced. But during the summer of 1897 Bennett discovered that the socalled Carlyle limestone was the same as the Garnett. As the latter name had been used much more extensively than the former, and the two first used at the same time by the writer, it is preferable to retain the name Garnett and to entirely do away with the name Carlyle.
Page 194 - Campbell* states that the Tertiary beds in this valley bear evidence of considerable crustal movement since their deposition. The eastern margin that rests against the foot of the Kingston Range is 800 feet higher than the uppermost beds of the same series at the foot of Funeral Mountain. This indicates a depression toward the west, in the direction of Death Valley. It seems possible that the change was due to the sinking of Death Valley to its present position below sea level. KINGSTON RANGE. The...
Page 141 - The oil and salt pockets of the Texas coastal plain are probably not Indigenous to the strata in which they are found, but are the resultant products of columns of hot saline waters which have ascended, under hydrostatic pressure, at points along lines of structural weakness, through thousands of feet of shale, sand and marine littoral sediments of the coast plain section, through which oil and sand are disseminated in more or less minute quantities.