Transactions of the Academy of Science of the St. Louis (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. 1858 Excerpt: ... sand-stone. Limestone, mostly blue and bluish-gray; good for building purposes. Bluish gray limestone; hard and tolera-bly fine-grained; weathers with a rough, sandy appearance; contains Or-thisina robusta. Green clay or shales; contains limestone nodules. Shelly ferruginous limestone; 1' of brown limestone at top, and 2' of brown and blue shales in the middle, with lime-stone at bottom; contains Productus Rogersii, Pr. ctquicostalus, Archaocida-ri, &c. Shales at top, limestone below. Bluish-drab limestone. Slope--limestone and sandy shales, the lower 5' shales. Bed of Tutenmergd, from 1" to 2J." Ashy-blue limestone, divided thus: No. 1, 3" thinly laminated brownish-gray limestone. No. 2, 10" ashy-blue limestone; con-tains blue chert. No. 8, 4' brown Bhales. No. 4, blue limestone somewhat mot-tled. Limestone, mostly in irregular beds ashy-gray and ashy buff, with occa sionalthin beds interstratified; abounds in Orthii hemiplicata; in the upper stra-ta are beautiful univalves. Shales. Bituminous shales. Ashy grayish-drab limestone; is fine grained and would look well polished; is often a uniform gray crystalline. Green argillaceous shales. Upper part thin-bedded brownish lime stone; the middle brown and thick-bedded; below it is soft and whitish; the lower 3 feet very soft and decom posing. Ripple-marked sandstone and shales. I Shales. Sandy and argillaceous shales. Four miles below Forest City, and on bluffs below, and capping the hills near Nodaway river as far up as Ohio Mills. Dark, coarse, shaly limestone j abounds in Myalina mbquadrata. Greenish-olive argillaceous shales. Drab limestone, slightly tinged with green near the surface; contains Sy ringopora, Pinna, Bryozoa, &c. Drab argillaceous shales. Blue and bituminous shal...