Bulletin Volume 130-159 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...to be derived exclusively from a coal measure shale. Stratigraphically speaking, the test farm lands at Neapolis rest upon the same, or nearly the same formation as those of the University farm, Columbus, but the soil is the deep lacustrine," littoral or dune sand of what is called the fourth beach. These soils are very much like the sands of the present lake beach at Cedar Point, Erie county; they have their soil counterparts in the "oak openings" districts of several different counties. While the foregoing statements of fact need to be made, too much stress might easily be placed on the particular underlying rock stratum; it would be especially easy to do this in the Germantown district and the same applies with force at Neapolis. We can conceive, without any great effort of the mind, how these shore sands of Neapolis will contain chiefly the insoluble silica, able to resist both abrasion and solution, irrespective of underlying rocks. The Strongsville soils appear to derive their character from the Cuyahoga shale, but their content in magnesia is conspicuous. This too is possibly referable to the composition of the Cuyahoga shale. In general for Ohio, it appears that soils of the upland or plateau nature of those heretofore chosen for Station experimentation may derive their chief characteristics from the underlying strata, irrespective of whether these soils are situated within or without the glacial area of the state. It may be assumed to be otherwise with unstratified drift deposits, or field alluvial deposits, which make up a very considerable portion of the farming lands of the state. In them we may expect to find a mixed character. A little reflection would lead us to infer that the results obtained by the examination of the soils he...