Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 3:173-182. Salisbury, R. D. 1892. "On the northward and eastward extension of the pre-Pleistocene gravels of the Mississippi basin". Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 3:183-186. Salisbury, R. D. 1894. "Studies for students: Superglacial drift". The Journal of Geology 2(6):619-632.
Jackson Volcano is an extinct volcano 2,900 feet (880 m) beneath the city of Jackson, Mississippi, under the Mississippi Coliseum. The uplifted terrain around the volcano forms the Jackson Dome, an area of dense rock clearly noticeable in local gravity measurements. [1] E.W. Hilgard published his theory of an anticline beneath Jackson in 1860 ...
'Stratigraphy of North Dakota' - Bulletin of American Association of Petroleum and Geology, Vol. 26, No.3, pp 336–79, March 1942 'Clay County Fossils - Midway Foraminifera and Ostracoda', V. Kline, Mississippi Geological Survey Bulletin 53, Pt. 3, 1943; Series of annual reports (1944 - 1957) on oil and gas developments in Illinois
In 1877–1881, he executed a topographic and geological survey of 17,000 square miles (44,030 km 2) in northeastern Iowa. [5] [6] [7] He then undertook an examination of the loess of the Mississippi Valley , researched the great Quaternary lakes of Nevada and California and studied a recent fault movement in the middle Atlantic slope.
Ralph Early Grim (February 25, 1902 – August 19, 1989) was an American geologist and scientist, often referred to as the "Father of Mineralogy" because he made many discoveries during his investigations of clay materials.
The geology of Mississippi includes some deep igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rocks from the Precambrian known only from boreholes in the north, as well as sedimentary sequences from the Paleozoic. The region long experienced shallow marine conditions during the tectonic evolutions of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, as coastal plain ...
Tallahatta Hills, Alabama. The Tallahatta Formation is a geologic formation found on the surface in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. It is also located in the subsurface of Kentucky. [1] The Tallahatta formation is part of the Claiborne Group [2] and contains four members: the Basic City Shale in Mississippi, the Holy Springs Sand ...
United States Geological Survey (USGS) / 38.9470; -77.3675. The United States Geological Survey ( USGS ), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United ...