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Geological Survey of Michigan Lower Peninsula 1896-1900 Vol. Vii Part I GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN § 6. Name. ................................................................11 ALFRED C. LANE, STATE GEOLOGIST § 7. General data. .....................................................11 § 8. Thickness...........................................................12 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN § 9. Lithological character. ........................................12 § 10. Geological position...........................................12 LOWER PENINSULA § 11. Lithological history............................................13 1896-1900 C. Traverse (Hamilton) Group:....................................14 § 12. Name and geological position. .........................14 VOL. VII § 13. General data. ...................................................14 PART I § 14. Thickness.........................................................14 § 15. Lithological characters. ....................................14 GEOLOGICAL REPORT ON MONROE COUNTY § 16. Lithological history............................................15 MICHIGAN D. Dundee Limestone:. ...............................................15 § 17. Name and geological position. .........................15 BY § 18. General data. ...................................................16 W. H. SHERZER § 19. Drift covering. ...................................................16 § 20. Thickness.........................................................17 ACCOMPANIED BY SEVENTEEN PLATES AND EIGHT § 21. Lithological characters. ....................................17 FIGURES INCLUDING THREE COLORED MAPS § 22. Lithological history............................................17 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LAWS OF CHAPTER III. SILURIAN FORMATIONS. .....................18 MICHIGAN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A. Monroe Beds: .........................................................18 THE BOARD OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY § 1. Name and geological position. ...........................18 § 2. General data. .....................................................19 LANSING ROBERT SMITH PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS § 3. Thickness...........................................................19 1900 § 4. Lithological characters. ......................................20 § 5. Lithological history..............................................21 Entered, according to Act of Congress in the year 1900, by Description of Special Beds:. ................................ 22 GOVERNOR HAZEN S. PINGREE § 6. Sylvania sandstone. ...........................................22 for the State of Michigan, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. § 7. Oölitic beds. .......................................................26 B. Beds Reached by Borings:. ....................................28 § 8. Deep well records. .............................................28 Contents § 9. Interpretation of records. ....................................31 CHAPTER IV. QUARRIES. ............................................32 CHAPTER I. GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL A. Dundee Formation:. ................................................32 INTRODUCTION............................................................... 2 § 1. Macon quarry. ....................................................32 A. Geographical:........................................................... 2 § 2. Dundee quarry. ..................................................32 § 1. Location................................................................2 § 3. Petersburg excavations......................................33 § 2. Railroads. .............................................................2 B. Monroe Beds:. ........................................................33 § 3. Proposed lines......................................................3 a. Quarries above the Sylvania sandstone:.......... 33 § 4. Miscellaneous data...............................................3 § 4. Woolmith quarries. .............................................33 B. Historical:. ................................................................ 3 § 5. Raisinville quarries. ............................................35 § 5. Early boundaries. .................................................3 § 6. Ida quarries. .......................................................36 § 6. Indian occupation. ................................................4 § 7. Lulu quarry. ........................................................37 § 7. Early settlements..................................................4 § 8. Little Sink quarry. ...............................................37 § 8. War of 1812..........................................................4 § 9. Ottawa Lake quarries. ........................................38 § 9. Growth of population. ...........................................5 b. Quarries below the Sylvania sandstone........... 39 § 10. Southern boundary.............................................5 § 10. Newport quarries..............................................39 C. Geological Work within the County:......................... 5 § 11. Frenchtown quarries. .......................................39 § 11. Previous work.....................................................5 § 12. Monroe quarries. ..............................................40 § 12. Houghton survey. ...............................................5 § 13. La Salle quarries. .............................................41 § 13. Winchell survey. .................................................7 § 14. Bedford quarries...............................................41 § 14. Rominger survey. ...............................................7 § 15. Whiteford quarries............................................42 § 15. Work of present survey.......................................8 CHAPTER V. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. .....................43 § 16. Acknowledgments. .............................................8 § 1. Climate...............................................................43 CHAPTER II. DEVONIAN AND QUATERNARY. ........... 9 § 2. General configuration of the county. ..................44 A. Quaternary Deposits:. .............................................. 9 § 3. Elevations within the county...............................44 § 1. Thickness. ............................................................9 a. U. S. Survey levels............................................44 § 2. General nature. ....................................................9 b. Railroad levels...................................................45 § 3. Boulders. ..............................................................9 c. Elevated beach levels. ......................................45 § 4. Post-glacial deposits...........................................11 d. Aneroid levels....................................................46 § 4. Surface drainage................................................46 B. Devonian Formations.—St. Clair (Genesee) § 5. Underground drainage. ......................................48 Shales:......................................................................... 11 § 6. Diagonal features. ..............................................49 § 5. General arrangement of Devonian formations....11 Volume VII, Part I -- Chapters 1-5 – Page 1 of 50 List of Illustrations VII, you have authorized. Five hundred copies as you have voted are issued separately, while the remainder of the edition is reserved to be bound up with the remaining Plates parts, upon which the printer is now at work. This and Plate II. South wall of the Woolmith quarry, showing massive the following report upon Huron county are of rather building blocks of the silicious dolomite..........................34 exceptional size, because the two counties themselves are of exceptional geological interest. They have more Plate III. View of the Cummins quarry, locally known as the than usually numerous rock exposures, and taken “Little Sink.” Observe the scanty soil and stunted forest together, they cover pretty fairly the whole variety of growth.............................................................................38 rocks and surface conditions in the Lower Peninsula. Plate IV. Quarry floor, west wall and crusher of the Monroe Thus dwellers in the other counties thereof will find much Stone Company..............................................................41 information which they can apply to their own homes. Plate V. Section of the Monroe well (from Vol. V.).................42 Some of the valuable results of Prof. Sherzer's work are: Plate VI. Cross sections along line of railroads. ....................44 the description of the considerable thickness and extent of the Sylvania glass-sand, a work of great value to a Plate VIII. View of the River Raisin at Monroe, showing the typical beds of dolomite ..................................................47 State so exceptionally well situated for glass manufacture as Michigan; the description of the deposits Plate IX. Rock opening through which the water of the “Big of high grade limestone and strontianite, both of which Sink” escapes. View looking into the bottom of a small may be important factors in beet-sugar manufacture, ravine..............................................................................49 while the former is also in great demand for the Plate X. Bed of Ottawa Lake sink, from the head looking manufacture of soda ash; and the determination of the southward, Oct. 15, 1898. ..............................................49 limited extent and economic value of the oil and gas. Plate XI. Sand ridge of lower
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