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Page 186 - OF NEW JERSEY. Newark, 1868. 8vo , xxiv.+899pp. Out of print. PORTFOLIO OF MAPS accompanying the same, as follows: 1. Azoic and paleozoic formations, including the iron ore and limestone districts; colored. Scale, 2 miles to an inch. 2. Triassic formation, including the red sandstone and trap rocks
Page 187 - 13 pp. Out of print. THE ANNUAL REPORT of Prof. Geo. H. Cook, State Geologist, to His Excellency Joel Parker, President of the Board of Managers of the Geological Survey of New Jersey, for the year 1864. Trenton,
Page 186 - mile. 6. Map of the Ringwood iron mines; printed in two colors. Scale, 8 inches to 1 mile. 7. Map of Oxford Furnace iron-ore veins, colored. Scale, 8 inches to 1 mile. 8. Map of the zinc mines, Sussex county;
Page iii - MD VALENTINE , Woodbridge. IV. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. AUGUSTUS W. CUTLER Morristown. GEORGE RICHARDS Dover. V. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. GEORGE W. WHEELER Hackensack. WILLIAM F. HALL ....Pompton Lakes. VI. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. THOMAS T. KINNEY Newark. FREDERIC W. STEVENS Newark. VII. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. LEBBEUS B. WARD Jersey City. SAMUEL B. DOD Hoboken. VIII. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. HENRY AITKEN Elizabeth. WENDELL P. GARRISON Orange.
Page 187 - 19. New Jersey Relief Map. Scale, 5 miles to the inch. Hypsometric. No. 20. New Jersey Geological Map. Scale, 5 miles to the inch. The maps comprising THE ATLA.S
Page 185 - PUBLICATIONS. The demand for the publications of the Survey is continuous and active, and several of the reports are out of stock. So far as possible,, requests are granted by giving the reports to such requests. The sales of the topographic maps are slightly larger than in
Page 186 - from Somerville and Princeton westward to the Delaware. No. 6 The Valley of the Passaic, with the country eastward to Newark and southward to the Raritan river
Page 45 - eruptives by which they are cut; so that no sufficient agent is at hand to account for the supposed change from blue into white limestone. the gneisses, which are of admitted pre-Cambrian age, and because (2) they have been subjected to general metamorphic forces
Page v - of the State of New Jersey, and ex-officio, President of the Board of Managers of the Geological Survey of Ntw Jersey
Page 187 - and Vineland southward to the Delaware bay shore. No. 15. Southern Interior, the country lying between Atco, Millville and Egg Harbor City.