Report on the Valley Regions of Alabama: (Paleozoic Strata)J.P. Armstrong, printer, 1897 - Geology |
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anticlinal average sample belt Bibb county Black Shale boulders breccia broken country Cahaba Coal Field calcareous cherty ridges clay Coal Measures color conglomerates Coosa Coal Field Coosa Flatwood Coosa River county line Cove cover crops Debris deposit Dolomite and Chert dried at 100 East Red Mountain engulfed Etowah county feet thick Ferric Oxide ferruginous Flatwood following outcropping Fort Payne grains gray hard inches thick interstratified iron leached ledge lime limestones limonite limy loam loose massive mines moun narrow nodules north-east and south-west north-east end north-west edge north-west side occurs outcrop Oxmoor Shales Payne Chert pebbles Pelham Trenton Phosphoric Acid places quarry quartzites red loam Red Mountain Clinton region rocks sandstones sandy Shales and Sandstones shaly shows Siliceous Knox Silurian soft south-east edge south-east side south-west end square miles strata streaks Sub-carboniferous surface synclinal Talladega Talladega county test pit thin weathered yards yellowish
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Page 779 - On the Stratigraphy of the Platte Series" Colorado College Studies, 1896, Prof. FW Cragin classes the Arickaree shales as Fox Hill. They were first called Fort Pierre by Prof. Robert Hay in his paper on: "Water Resources of a Portion of the Great Plains," published in the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Director of the US Geological Survey.
Page 775 - ... into to a depth of some 20 feet without getting through it. Neither of these seams, however, are believed to be as thick as they appear to be on the outcrop. The lower one has in it some spots of bauxitic clay and some streaks of manganese stain. The following analysis, given by Mr. John H. Hawkins, Supt. of the Republic Mining and Manufacturing' Company, are said to be of average samples of respectively the white and red ores of this bank...
Page 165 - W. ^ of S. 28, T. 9, R. 7 E. (II) Shales, sandstones ; the sandstones occur as seams of flagstones in the shales 40 to 50 ft. 0 in. (10) Ore; good and soft, visible 2 ft 6 in. (9) Shales, Sandstones, Debris ; about. . . .85 ft. 0 in. (8) Ore; a ferruginous siliceous limestone, very fossiliferous 4 ft. 0 in. <7) Ore; a ferruginous friable oolitic calcareous sandstone, a mass of loosly coherent grains of ferruginous sand 10 ft. 0 in. (6)' [Ore; a ferruginous limestone 8ft.
Page 471 - J sec. 34, and there are outcrops of a bed which is reported to be about 8 feet thick in an old test pit near the center of the NE. J sec. 33.° These strata are bounded on the northwest by a fault, and are badly broken up. Near the center of the SE. J sec. 33 there is an outcrop of soft, oolitic ore in thin beds interstratified with shaly seams. Ore was also found in test pits on the southeast limb of the syncline, in the NW.
Page 10 - In the following year the writer detected nickel in the pits farther west. Geology Lake Shebaiulowan has a length of about 25 miles and an average width of about three-quarters of a mile. The lake was geologically mapped by W. Mclnnes find the map published in 1896.
Page 784 - The cavities thus left are lined with a thin :ilin of gibbsite. Under the microscope the ore is seen to contain a large amount of this mineral, which in some cases forms most of the matrix and also replaces portions of the oolites The deposit also contains some coarse pisolitic ore consisting of a few rather large simple concretions imbedded in compact white matrix.
Page 219 - Low Gap" in the of SEy4 of sec. 34, T. 11, R. 5 B. (M. II. p. 219) Ft. In. (7) Shale, about _ 30 (6) Ore, Shale; in alternate streaks, the ore is shaly, from 2 ft. to 2 6 (5) Sandstone, ferruginous and calcareous, very hard, breaking like flint and called cap rock, it seems to thicken as the ore thickens, about . 8 (4) Shale _ 2 0 (3) Ore; good 4 0 (2) Shale Section of Red Mountain rocks SW of Low Gap (M. II, p. 220) Ft. In. (6) Shales, Sandstones; yellowish gray with greenish tinge . (5) Ore, Shale;...
Page 96 - Alabama stone as examined by the writer is finely granular and too friable for satisfactory work. Qualitative tests showed it to be a siliceous magnesian limestone. It is of course possible that the single sample shown does not fairly represent the product.
Page 384 - . 20to30ft. (14) Feruginous sandstone; very sandy Ore.. .40 to 45 ft. (13) Sandstone 20 to 25 ft. (12) Ore; sandy 2 to 5 ft. (11) Sandstone, Sandy Ore; a sandstone with 2 to 20 ft. of its central part a sandy Ore. .40 to 60 ft. (10) Ore, Shales; principally siliceous ore with interstratified shale, with the hickory nut or gray ore team, from 2 to 5 ft.
Page 777 - ... (1). (3) A white uniform ore with only a few eyes. The eyes are slightly colored. Analyst: — Same as (1) (4) A nearly white ore with small red eyes. Analyst: — Same as (1). (5) Given by Mr. John H. Hawkins, Supt. of Republic Mining and Manufacturing Company, as about an average analysis of the ores of this mine. The cover to this ore is an unctuous clay of red and mottled colors. The mottled clay reminds one in looks and feeling of castile soap. These covering clays carry some large angular...