Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4504U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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abundant ammonium chloride analcite andesite anticline Ascutney basalt Bendire Bendire U. S. Nat biotite Bridge Creek Buda limestone Cambrian Canyon Cayuga Lake cent Cherry Creek Chonetes Collected by Maj conglomerate Conrad deposits Devonian dikes east Egan Range Eighteenmile Creek Encrinal beds Eureka fault fauna faunule feet feldspar flora fold formation fossils Genus GEOLOGICAL SURVEY granite Grant County H₂O Hall Heer Horn's ranch hornblende IGNEOUS ROCKS intrusive John Day Basin Knowlton lava leaf Lesq Lesquereux lobes locality lower magma margin Meadow Valley Merriam mineral Mountain nervation Newb Oregon overlying Paleozoic Peak phyllite Pleistocene Pliocene portion probably Proc quartz quartzite Quercus Range region rhyolite ridge sandstone schists SEDIMENTARY ROCKS shales siliceous Silurian southern end species specimens Spirifer Spring strata stratified structure Surv syenite Tertiary thick tuffs U. S. Geol Upper Carboniferous Upper Hamilton volcanic Walcott zone
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Page 70 - A geological and agricultural survey of the district adjoining the Erie canal in the state of New York.
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Page 72 - Cheinung group in New York. Am. Jour. Sci., 3d series, vol. 25, 1883. A revision of the Cayuga Lake [New York] section of the Devonian. Am. Jour. Sci., 3d series, vol. 32, 1886. The making of the geological time scale. Jour. Geol., vol. 1, 1892. Southern Devonian formations. Am. Jour. Sci., 4th series, vol. 3, 1897.
Page 7 - Cnboides zone of Europe is seen in New York not only in the Tully limestone, but in the shaly strata for several hundred feet above. Therefore, if we wish to express precise correlation in our classification of American rocks, the line between Middle and Upper Devonian formations should be drawn at the base of the Tully limestone, to correspond with the usage of French, Belgian, German, and Russian geologists, who include Frasnein, Cuboides Schichten, and correlated zones in the Upper Devonian.
Page 13 - The regions of the John Day River and Blue Mountains furnish sections of the formations of central Oregon. Above the Loup Fork or Upper Miocene there is a lava outflow, which has furnished the materials of a later lacustrine formation, which contains many vegetable remains. The material is coarse, and sometimes gravelly, and it is found on the Columbia River, and I think also in the interior basin. Professor Condon, in his unpublished notes, calls this the Dalles Group.
Page 7 - Chapelle, etc. , is represented in the New York sections by the Tully limestone, and, second, that the representative of the fauna of 'the Cuboides zone of Europe is seen in New York not only in the Tully limestone, but in the shaly strata for several hundred feet above. Therefore, if we wish to express precise correlation in...
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