Part I. Report of Progress in 1869, Parts 1-3 |
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Page 3 - To report to the next Legislature the best method of obtaining a complete geological survey of the State, and an estimate of the probable cost of the same.
Page 26 - Sound, etc., have been excavated, indicates a similar (perhaps simultaneous) elevation and erosion of the Western coast of America. The falls of the Ohio — formed by a rocky barrier across the stream — though at first sight seeming to disprove the theory of a deep continuous channel in our Western rivers, really afford no argument against it, for here, as in many other instances, the present river does not follow accurately the line of the old channel below, but runs along one or the other side...
Page 27 - The question is, however, of sufficient importance to deserve investigation, before millions of dollars are expended iu rock excavation. If it is true that our great lakes can be connected with each other and with the ocean, both by the Hudson and Mississippi, by ship canals, — in making which no elevated summits nor rock barriers need be cut through, — the future commerce created by the great population and immense resources of the basin of the great lakes may require their construction. 3d....
Page 9 - Xewberry, in the report for 1869 (p. 9), where we read: Of the other members of the corps, Messrs. Gilbert and Sherwood were geologists who had devoted much time to practical geology in New York and Pennsylvania, and who, for the purpose of adding to their experience, volunteered their services for no other compensation than their traveling expenses.
Page 36 - ... and plumbago consisted in the evolution of a portion of the carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, leaving a constantly increasing percentage of carbon behind. This evolution Newberry conceived to be due to the disturbances which resulted in the uplifting of the mountain chains and metamorphosed the included rocks. The coal beds of Ohio, it should be noted, were considered as always having been separated from those of Illinois by the Cincinnati anticline.
Page 25 - ... inscriptions made upon them, the upper surface of these rocks planed, furrowed or excavated in a peculiar and striking manner, evidently by the action of one great denuding agent. No one who has seen glaciers and noticed the effect they produce on the rocks over which they move, upon examining good exposures of the markings to which I have referred, will fail to pronounce them the tracks of glaciers.* Though having a general north-south direction, locally the glacial furrows have very different...
Page 37 - They have generally a distinctly laminated structure, and are composed of bituminous layers, separated by thin partitions of cannel or mineral charcoal, materials which do not coke.
Page 33 - Coal is entitled to be considered as the mainspring of civilization. By the power developed in its combustion all the wheels of industry are kept in motion, commerce is carried on with rapidity and certainty over all portions of the earth's surface, the useful metals are brought from the deep caves in which they have hidden themselves, and are purified and wrought to serve the purposes of man. By coal, night is, in one sense, converted into day, winter into summer, and the...
Page 28 - Huron, along a channel now filled with drift, and known to be at least 1 50 feet deep, into Lake Erie, which was then not a lake, but an excavated valley into which the streams of northern Ohio flowed, 100 feet or more below the present lake level. Following the line of the major axis of Lake Erie to near its eastern extremity, here turning northeast, this glacier passed through some channel on the Canadian side, now filled up, into Lake Ontario, and thence found its way to the sea either by the...
Page 7 - Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor is hereby required to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, a chief geologist, who shall be a person of known integrity and competent practical and scientific knowledge of the sciences of geology and mineralogy ; and upon consultation with said chief geologist and the like concurrence of the senate, the governor shall appoint one or more suitable...