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alternating filler Anal areas argillaceous axis Basal sandstone basin Bed-Rocks Bethany Falls limestone Burlington-Keokuk Calciferous group Calcium Bicarbonate Calcium Bicarbonate Magnesium Calcium Sulphate Cambrian Cambrian limestone Cap-Rock cherts Chouteau coal field coal horizons Coal Measures cosmic cotton rock country rock Creek crystalline deposited developed doubtless Earth energy evolved feet thick flexible shield floor fossils geological record granite hundred feet Infusorial sandstones inverts Iron lava lenses lime Louis limestone Lower Coal Measures Magnesian Lens Magnesium Bicarbonate Mahoning sandstone massive metallic Middle Coal Measures miles Mineral matter Missouri River Moreau sandstone mud-rocks obvious facts obviously Ordovician organic Paleozoic Perry County Plate plutonic porphyry Potassium Chloride primary Primordial Base Primordial rocks quarries quartzite Roubidoux Roubidoux sandstone Second Calciferous second horizon sediment Shannon County Silica Silica Alumina Sodium Chloride Sodium Chloride Specific Specific gravity Spring stone surface rock synthetic product Thomas sandstone Trenton limestone Upper Cambrian Upper Coal Measures valley volcanic
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Page 6 - Hadley, and the Members of the Board of Managers of the Bureau of Geology and Mines : Gentlemen : I have the honor to transmit herewith a report on the iron ores of Missouri by Mr.
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Page 162 - Spring valleys in southwest Missouri. In short, the argillaceous Chouteau forms the impervious floor to all of the open ground or reconstructed channels in the wall rock or country rock of southwest Missouri, and that is its chief function now in the geology of Missouri. Our Chouteau beds are the equivalent of the massive oolitic limestone, quarried so extensively at Bedford, Indiana. Our Chouteau is, however, too argillaceous to be oolitic. It carries some fine-grained siliceous layers or lenses...
Page 72 - ... mile of ore-bearing rocks, that have been resolved into their constituent elements and carried away to the sea floor; or precipitated in the fissures and other cavities in these ancient bed-rocks. Again, the innumerable dykes of diabase, pegmatite and porphyry suggest that it...
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Page 161 - CHOUTEAU BEDS. (Plate 45.) The Chouteau, or bottom member of our Subcarboniferous section, has a wide distribution but very little economic value. It seems to have the requisite physical characters for making a good native cement, but for some unaccountable reason that important industry has received very little attention in Missouri. If systematic and exhaustive tests were made, there is very little doubt but that some one of our...
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Page 92 - Redoak 41 26 25. 25 221 12 37. 16 4. 7403246 WINDING STAIR, CHOCTAW NATION. On the highest point of the Winding Stair Mountains, locally well known by the above name, reached from Talihina, a town on the main line of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. The corner to secs.