Publication 21. Geological Series 17. MINERAL RESOURCES OF
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STATE OF MICHIGAN Trenton Limestone .................................................19 MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY "Niagara" Limestone ..............................................20 Engadine Dolomite. ............................................20 Publication 21. Geological Series 17. Manistique Series...............................................21 Fiborn Limestone................................................21 MINERAL RESOURCES OF MICHIGAN Hendricks Series ................................................22 WITH Salina Formation....................................................23 STATISTICAL TABLES OF PRODUCTION Monroe Formation..................................................23 AND VALUE OF MINERAL PRODUCTS Lower Monroe, or Bass Island Series ........................23 FOR Upper Monroe, or Detroit River Series .......................23 Dundee or Onondaga Limestone ...........................24 1915 AND PRIOR YEARS. Traverse (Hamilton and Marcellus) Formation .......24 Bayport (Maxville) Limestone.................................25 WITH A TREATISE ON LIMESTONE RESOURCES R. A. SMITH. CHAPTER V. Distribution, Character, and Development of Limestone Deposits by Counties.25 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Pre-Cambrian Limestones. ........................................26 R. C. ALLEN Dickinson county. ...................................................26 DIRECTOR, MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND Gogebic county. .....................................................26 BIOLOGICAL SURVEY Iron county. ............................................................27 Marquette county. ..................................................27 PUBLISHED AS A PART OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Paleozoic Limestones. ...............................................29 BOARD OF GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY FOR Alger county. ..........................................................29 1915. Alpena county. .......................................................29 LANSING, MICHIGAN Arenac county. .......................................................34 WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO., STATE PRINTERS Charlevoix county...................................................36 1916 Cheboygan county. ................................................39 Chippewa county....................................................42 Delta county. ..........................................................45 PART II. NON-METALLIC Eaton county. .........................................................47 Emmet county. .......................................................48 MINERALS. Huron county..........................................................51 R. A. SMITH. Jackson county. .....................................................52 Kent county. ...........................................................53 Luce county............................................................53 Mackinac county. ...................................................54 Contents Marquette county ...................................................57 Menominee county.................................................57 Limestones of Michigan.. ............................................... 2 Monroe county. ......................................................58 Presque Isle county................................................60 Introduction. .............................................................2 Schoolcraft county..................................................64 CHAPTER I. Origin of Limestone. ..........................3 Wayne county. .......................................................66 Definition. .....................................................................3 Original Sources...........................................................3 Organic and Inorganic Deposits. ..................................4 Illustrations CHAPTER II. Classification and Varieties of Limestones...............................................................5 Plates Varieties Based on Texture. .........................................5 Plate I. A. Boulder tract of Engadine dolomite near Hessel, Varieties Based on Composition. .................................6 Mackinac county. ...........................................................19 CHAPTER III. Uses of Limestone...........................8 Plate I. B. A large weathered boulder of Engadine dolomite As Raw and Burned Limestone. ...................................8 near the railroad one mile west of Engadine, Mackinac CHAPTER IV. Geology of Limestone county. ...........................................................................20 Formations. ............................................................16 Plate II. A. Quarry and crushing plant of the Michigan Alkali Geologic Distribution. .................................................16 Company at Alpena, Alpena County. .............................37 Algonkian Limestones. ...............................................16 Kona Dolomite........................................................17 Plate II. B. Kilns and crushing plant of the Charlevoix Rock Randville Dolomite .................................................17 Products Co. at Charlevoix, Charlevoix county. .............37 Saunders Formation...............................................17 Plate III. A. Plant of the Campbell Stone Co. at Afton, Bad River Limestone ..............................................18 Cheboygan county. ........................................................39 Paleozoic Limestones. ...............................................18 Geologic Occurrence and Distribution....................18 Plate III. B. Quarry of the Petoskey Crushed Stone Co. four Marl or Bog Lime Deposits. ........................................19 miles west of Petoskey, Emmet county..........................40 PALAEOZOIC LIMESTONES—Areal Distribution And Plate IV. A. Crushing plants of the Bayport quarry of the General Description....................................................19 Wallace Stone Co., near Bayport, Huron county............55 Beekmantown. (Calciferous, Lower Magnesian) ....19 Publication 21, Geological Series 17 / Part II - Limestones of Michigan– Page 1 of 67 Plate IV. B. Fiborn quarry and crushing plant of the Fiborn Figure 15. Geologic section from Calcite quarry of the Limestone Co., Mackinac county....................................55 Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co., south to section 3, T. 43 N. R. 5 E., Presque Isle county. ...........................61 Plate V. A. Hendricks quarry of the Union Carbide Co., Mackinac county.............................................................55 Plate V. B. Test pit in the floor of the Hendricks quarry, LIMESTONES OF MICHIGAN. showing the upper beds of the Hendricks Series. ..........55 R. A. SMITH. Plate VI. A. Quarry of the Ozark Stone Co. at Ozark, Mackinac county.............................................................................59 INTRODUCTION. Plate VI. B. New crushing plant of the France Stone Co., That Michigan possesses enormous limestone Monroe, Monroe county..................................................59 resources has been known for more than a half century Plate VII. A. Quarry of the Michigan Limestone and Chemical yet little was known of the specific or even the general Co. at Calcite, Presque Isle county.................................61 character of many of the beds until recently. A. Plate VII. B. Plant of the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Winchell,* and C. Rominger,** incidentally have Co. at Calcite, Presque Isle county.................................61 described in various early publications of the Michigan Geological Survey the limestone formations in different Plate VIII. A. Middle Bluff, Fayette, Garden Peninsula, Delta localities in connection with the discussion of other county.............................................................................62 geological problems. A. C. Lane† described in detail the Plate VIII. B. John Bichler quarry, four miles north of limestones of Huron county, W. H. Sherzer†† the Escanaba, Delta county..................................................62 limestones of Monroe and Wayne counties, W. H. Sherzer and A. W. Grabau‡ the limestones of the Figures Monroe Formation, A. W. Grabau‡‡ the limestones of the Traverse Formation, and W. M. Gregory§ those of Figure 1. Map of the Kona dolomite. After Van Hise, Bayley Arenac county. Lane studied in more or less detail the and Smyth, Mon. 28, U. S. Geol. Surv............................16 limestone deposits in a number of other localities, and in Figure 2. Map of the Randville dolomite, northeast of Crystal the Annual Report of the Geological Survey for 1901 Falls, Iron County. After Clements and Smyth, Mon. 36, published a brief report upon the limestones of the whole U. S. Geol. Surv. ............................................................16 state. Brief notes by Lane,§§ Russell,*** and others on Figure 3. Map of the Randville dolomite in the Felch Mountain limestone were published in some of the other reports. and Sturgeon River district. After Smyth and Clements, All of the above contributions to the subject, with the Mon. 36, U. S. Geol. Surv...............................................17 exception of the reports on Arenac, Huron, Monroe, and Wayne counties, and on the Monroe formation are out of Figure 4. Map of the Randville dolomite in the Menominee iron-bearing district, Dickinson county. After W. S. print and largely out of date. Bayley, Mon. 46, U.S. Geol. Surv...................................17 This