| Geological Survey of Canada - 1876 - 166 pages
...for the manufacture of hydraulic cement. The principal gypsum mines worked are along the Grand River, between Cayuga and Paris, a distance of thirty-five...is sometimes interstratified in thin beds with it. That above is often arched, forming domes or mounds at the surface indicative of gypsum beneath. —... | |
| Arnold Guyot - 1885 - 136 pages
...into the quiet atmosphere beneath, drawing up in its vortex all objects within its path. On its track, varying from a few yards to a quarter of a mile in width, trees are uprooted, and houses unroofed or carried up into the air by the fearful power of the... | |
| Wilbur Fisk Nichols - 1889 - 202 pages
...hills called "knobs," in the vicinity of which are the famous sink-holes. These are funnel-shaped pits, varying from a few yards to a quarter of a mile in diameter, usually leading to caves or underground streams. Here also are the Epsom Salt and the Wyandotte... | |
| United States National Museum - 1901 - 884 pages
...Onondago formations of Ontario, Canada, and are exploited along the Grand River between Cayuga and Paris. The mineral here occurs in lenticular masses varying...quarter of a mile in horizontal diameter and from 3 to 7 feet in thickness. (See Specimen No. 02145, USNM). The foreign sources of gypsum are almost,... | |
| George Perkins Merrill - 1904 - 518 pages
...Onondaga formations of Ontario, Canada, and are exploited along the Grand River between Cayuga and Paris. The mineral here occurs in lenticular masses varying...quarter of a mile in horizontal diameter and from 3 to 7 feet in thickness. The foreign sources of gypsum are almost too numerous to mention. Important... | |
| George Perkins Merrill - 1910 - 534 pages
...along the Grand River between Cayuga and Paris. The mineral here occurs in lenticular masses van-ing from a few yards to a quarter of a mile in horizontal diameter and from 3 to 7 feet in thickness. The foreign sources of gypsum are almost too numerous to mention. Important... | |
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