GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF OHIO (1870)1870 |
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Geological Survey of Ohio, Parts 1-3 John Strong Newberry,Ohio. Chief Geologist No preview available - 1871 |
Geological Survey of Ohio, Parts 1-3 John Strong Newberry,Ohio. Chief Geologist No preview available - 1871 |
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Page 8 - ... stratification of the rocks, the character of the soil, the localities of the beds of mineral deposits, and the character and extent of the different geological formations. SEC. 6. The annual appropriations which may be made by the general assembly for carrying out the provisions of this act, shall be expended under the direction of the governor upon the certificate of the chief geologist, .approved by the governor, and the warrant of the auditor of state, as follows : For salary of chief geologist,...
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 assistants, not exceeding three in number, one of whom...
Page 25 - 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 3 - March, 1836, providing for the appointment of a committee to report to the next legislature the best method of obtaining a complete geological survey of the State and the probable cost of the same.
Page 27 - Canadian side, now filled up, into Lake Ontario, and thence found its way to the sea either by the St. Lawrence or by the Mohawk and Hudson. Another glacier occupied the bed of Lake Michigan, having an outlet southward through a channel— now concealed by the heavy beds of drift which occupy the surface about the south end of the lake — passing near Bloomington...
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 32 - is entitled to be considered as the mainspring of our civilization. By the power developed in its combustion, all the wheels of industry are kept in motion, commerce is carried 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 life of man, measured by...
Page 25 - ... them out. Oil Creek flows from seventy-five to one hundred feet above its old channel, and that channel had sometimes vertical and even overhanging cliffs. The Beaver, at the junction of the Mahoning and Shenango, runs one hundred and fifty feet above the bottom of its old trough. The Ohio throughout its entire course runs in a valley which has been cut nowhere less than one hundred and fifty feet below the present river.
Page 27 - That the courses of these ancient glaciers corresponded in a general way with the present channels of drainage. The direction of the glacial furrows proves that one of these ice rivers flowed from Lake Huron, along a channel now filled with drift, and known to be at least...
Page 35 - ... 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.