Annual Report for ... with Accompanying PapersPublished for the Iowa Geological Survey, 1912 - Geology |
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50 feet alluvium arenaceous argillaceous artesian blue clay blue-gray bottom buff calcareous Cambrian Carboniferous Cedar chert Chien stage chips City country rock creek crystalline Decorah Depth Depth Depth to rock Devonian diameter Dolomite Dresbach drilled driller feet above sea feet below curb feet below sea feet deep Feet Feet Feet feet thick flow formation Galena gallons a minute given in feet grains hard hard water head inches Iowa Jordan sandstone Kansan drift Kinderhook light gray lime loess Logs given Louis limestone magnesian Maquoketa Maquoketa shale miles of mains mineral Mississippi Moines stage Niagaran dolomite Ordovician outcrops Peter sandstone Platteville Platteville limestone Prairie du Chien pumped quartz radicle rapid effervescence river Saint Peter Saint Peter sandstone samples sand and gravel sea level shale shallow Silurian soft springs stone surface township underlying upland valley W. S. Hendrixson water bed water-bearing Yellow clay yield