OF TUB

UNITED STATES

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No. 4:4

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1887

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUKVEY

J. AY. rOWELL, DIRECTOR

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1886

BY

NELSON H. DARTON

WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE.

1887

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1886.

BY NELSON H. BARTON.

INTRODUCTION.

The scope of this work embraces papers or parts of papers relating 

to the geology of North America issued during the year 1886 or bearing 

that date. The publications and book lists of the following institutions 

were examined in. its preparation:

American Academy, Proceedings, Tol. 21.

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Proceedings, 1885 and 1886. 

American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions. 

American Journal of Science. . American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin, December 28,1886. 

American Naturalist.

American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, vol. 23, Nos. 121 and 123. 

Appalachia, vol. 4, No. 3.

Boston Society of Natural History, Proceedings, April 1, 1885, to March 17, 1886. 

Brookville Society of Natural History, Proceedings, Nos. 1 and 2. 

Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Bulletin, vol. 5, Nos. 1 and 2. 

California Academy of Sciences, Bulletin, vol. 2, No. 5. 

Canadian Institute, Proceedings, vol. 3, Nos. 3 and 4, vol. 4, No. 1. 

Canadian Record of Science, vol. 2, Nos. 1-4. 

Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Journal, vol. 8, No. 9. 

Colorado Scientific Society, Transactions, vol. 2, part 1. 

Denison University, Bulletin, No. 1. 

Des Moines Academy of Science, Bulletin, vol. 1, No. 1. 

Elisha Mitchell Natural History Society, Journal, 1885-'86. 

Engineering and Mining Journal, vol. 42. 

Essex Institute, Bulletin, vol. 17, Nos. 4-G; vol. 18, Nos. 1-6. 

Geological Society, Quarterly Journal. 

Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin, Zeitschrift, vol. 21. 

Hamilton Association, Journal, vol. 1, No. 2. 

Iowa Historical Record, October, 1885, January and July, 1886. 

Johns Hopkins University, Circulars, Nos. 43-52. 

Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society, No. 20. 

. Nature. 

Neues Jahrbuch.

New Brunswick Natural History Society, Bulletin, No. 5. 

New York Academy of Sciences, Annals, vol. 3, Nos. 9-12. 

New York Academy of Sciences, Transactions, vol. 5, Nos. 1-6. 

Pacific Coast Technical Society, Proceedings, vol. 3, Nos. 1, 3, and 4.

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6 BIBLIOGR/'HY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. [BULL. 44.

Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, Proceedings, January to September, 1886.

Popular Science Monthly.

Royal Society of Canada, Transactions, vol. 3.

Saint Louis Academy of Science, Proceedings, vol. 4, No. 4.

School of Mines Quarterly, vol. 7 and vol. 8, No. 1.

Science.

Science Observer, vol. 4.

Scientific American Supplement, vol. 22.

Sedalia Natural History Society, Bulletin, No. 1.

Staten Island Scientific Association, Proceedings, January to November, 1886.

Tenth Census: Report on Mining Industries of the United States.

United States Geological Survey, Publications.

Vassar Brothers' Institute, Proceedings, vol. 3, part 1.

Washburn College, Bulletin, vol. 1, Nos. 2-7.

Washington Philosophical Society, Bulletin, vol. 8.

Wisconsin Academy of Science, Transactions, vol. 6.

Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Publications, vol. 2, part 2..

Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Proceedings, 1885.

The proceedings of a number of small local societies and several 

trade journals were not examined. Reasonable care has been taken to 

avoid errors and omissions, but no doubt some will be found.

The index references given with the titles are solely for the purpose 

of facilitating search for papers of which only the title or principal 

subject is known.

I am indebted to the following gentlemen for suggestions and information : Mr. McGee, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marcou, Professor Chamberlin, 

and Mr. Pilling.

WASHINGTON, March 15,1887.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY.

A.

Alabama, geologic survey report, SMITH. 

iron and coal, PORTER. 

iron mines, CtlAUVENET. 

Raccoon coal field, GIBSON. 

Tertiary, ALDRICH, LANGDON, SMITH. 

Warrior coal field, MCCALLEY.

Alaska, Quaternary, ALLEN.

ALDRICH (T. H.). Preliminary report 

upon the Tertiary fossils of Alabama and 

Mississippi.

Geol. Survey of"Ala. Bulletin No. 1, pp. 15-00 

and 6 pis.

Describes the fossiliferoua beds and states 

opinion as to their horizon and equivalency.

ALLEN (Henry T.). Copper River, 

Alaska, glacial action.

Science, vol. 8, pp. 145-146. 

Describes present glaciers and some of the 

evidences of former ones.

Anticosti, fossils, GRANT.

Archean, at "Wallbridge Mine, Canada,

CHAPMAN.

of Lake of the Woods region, LAWSON.

of New Jersey, BRITTON.

of Northwestern States, IRVING.

schistose structure, LAWSON.

Arkansas, coal fields, HARVEY.

minerals and rocks, HARVEY. 

Artesian wells, CHAMBERLIN.

A8HBURNER (Charles A.). Borings 

for oil in Jackson and Abbott Townships, Potter County.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 82-94.

Gives the well records and discusses the horizon and dip of the oil sands.

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ASHBURNER (C. A.) Continued.

 Description of the Archbald potlioles; also of tlie Buried Valley of Newport Creek near Nauticoke, with special 

reference to the "Nanticoko mine disaster " of December, 1885.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 615-630.

General statements about glaciation. Detailed description of the pot-holes and discussion of their cause. Discusses the thickness 

and distribution of drift near Nanticoke.

 Geologic distribution of natural gas 

in the United States.

Am. Inst. Mining Engineers, Trans. Oct. 1886, 

pp. 32 and maps.

Gives a general description of the geology of 

the oil bearing and associated strata in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

 Report on the Brandywine Summit 

kaolin bed, Delaware County.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 592-614.

Detailed description of the kaolin and associated beds and modes of mining and preparing 

the clay for market. Calls attention to the relation of kaolinization to bedding and cleavage 

planes and to the drainage of the district.

 Report on the Tipton Run coal openings, Blair County (coal beds in the 

Pocono formation, No. X)..

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

 1885, pp. 250-268.

Describes the outcrops and workings in tho 

coal beds and discusses their structure and 

geologic relations to the containing and associated formations.

 Report on the Wyoming Valley Carboniferous limestone beds.

"Wyoming Hist, and Geol. Soc. Proc. vol. 2, pp. 

254-264.
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ASHBURNER (C. A.) Continued.

Describes other Carboniferous limestonebeds 

in Pennsylvania and the occurrence .and horizon of the heds in the Wyoming Valley.

 Second report of progress' in the anthracite coal regions.

i Annual Eeport of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 269-490 and 2 pis.

General description of topography; structural geology, stratigraphic geology and mining, classification and composition of coals ; 

report of progress in the various coal fields of

i the region; description of the geologic, mine, 

and columnar section sheet and 01 the hasins 

and anticlines in the northern field; report 

on the Bernice coal basin, and report on "Wyoming Valley limestone heds, also published in 

Wyoming Hist, and Geol. Soc. Proc. vol. 2, pp. 

254-277. 

Atlantic, age of basin, DANA, NEWBERRY,

HULL. 

geology of, DAWSON.

AUGHEY (Samuel). Annual report of 

the territorial geologist to the governor 

of Wyoming, 1886, pp. IgO, 8°, Laramie, 1886.

Describes the condition of mines and some 

geologic features in the Silver Crown, Seminole, Ferris, Sweetwater, Owl Creek, Bridger, 

and Cummins City mining districts; the iron 

ore deposits and their geologic position; the 

petroleum district: its geology, structure, geologic history, genesis of its oil, climate, productions, &c.; and a list of minerals of the 

territory.

B.

BAILEY (L.W.). Explorations and surveys in portions of the counties of 

Carleton, Victoria, York, and Northumberland, N. B.

i Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Canada, vol. 1, n. s. G, pp. 29 and map.

« Describes the stratigraphic and structural 

features of the several formations and discusses their age &c. The paper is accompanied hy a colored geologic map.

 Geology and geologists inNew Brunswick.

Canadian Eec. Sci. vol. 2, pp. 93-96.

Discusses Wadsworth's criticisms on the 

geologic work in Now Brunswick and the 

structure and stratigraphic relations of the 

Cambrian.

BARCENA (Mariano). The fossil man 

of PeSon, Mexico.

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 633-635.

Describes beds in which the remains occur 

and does not consider them modern travertine 

as supposed by Newberry.

BARRIS (W. H.). A defense of our local 

geology.

Davenport Acad. Sci. Proc. vol. 5, pp. 15-22.

BECKER (George F.).' Cretaceous metamorphic rocks of California.

Am. Jour. Sci. in, vol. 31, pp. 348-357.

Describes beds near Neocomian in age lying 

upon the Archean of the Coast Eanges and altered to crystalline and serpentine rocks, of 

which the petrographic character is described. 

Discusses modes and means of metamorpbism.

Eeviewed in Nature, vol. 34, pp. 80-81.

BECKER (G. F.) Continued. '

 The Washoe rocks.

California Acad. Sci. Bulletin No. 0,pp. 93-120.

Reviews Hague and Iddings's criticisms and 

describes the mode of occurrence and petrography of the rocks in question. Discusses 

conditions of extrusion and crystallization and 

the extension of the various rock masses in 

the district.

BELL (Robert). The mineral resources 

of the Hudson Bay territories.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans., vol. 15, p. 9. 

Describes thp geology of the district.

 The uiodo of occurrence of apatite in 

Canada.

Canadian Inst. Proc. vol. 21, pp. 294-302. 

Describes the lithology of the apatite bearing 

rocks.

 Observations on the geology, zoology, 

and botany of Hudson Strait and Bay.

Annual Eeport of the Geol. Survey of Canada, vol. 1, n. s. DD, pp. 26.

Describes some features of the crystalline, 

Silurian, Devonian, volcanic, and drift formations. Discusses source of volcanic rocks and 

evidence of glaciation.

BENTON (Edward R.). Notes on the 

samples of iron ore collected in Maryland.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 245-260. 

Detailed description of some of the deposits.

 Notes on samples of iron ore collected 

in Northern New England.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 79-82.

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BENTON (E. R.) Continued.

Describes some features of the formations 

associated with the ore beds.

 Notes on the samples of iron ore collected in Virginia.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 261-208.

Description of the geology and structure of 

the formations associated with some of the oro 

beds.

BISHOP (I. P.). On certain fossiliferous 

limestones of Columbia Co., N. Y., and 

their relation to the Hudson River 

shales and the Taconic system.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 438-441.

Describes the occurrence of Trenton fossils 

near Chatham and the stratigrapbic relations 

of the rocks to others in the samo general district.

Bonneville, Lake, GILBERT.

BOYD(C. R.). The economic geology of 

the Bristol and Big Stone gap section 

of Tennessee and Virginia.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. vol. 15, p. 8.

Describes the geology and structure of the 

district in considerable detail.

BRAINERD (Alfred F.). Note on a deposit of fire sand in Clinton County,

N. Y.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. vol. 15, p. 3. 

Describes the occurrence of the sand and its 

composition. It overlies Potsdam sandstone.

BRANNER (John C.). [Geologic map 

of Indiana, colored according to the 

scheme of the International Geologic 

Congress. 2 by 4 inches. ]

Accompanied by a circular, in French, call, 

ing attention to inapplicability of the scheme 

of coloration for the representation of the subdivisions of the formations in Indiana.

 Glaciation of the Lackawanna Valley.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 212- 

214.

Gives the result of many observations of 

drift striae and notes some of variable direc. 

tious. Discusses the effect of topography on 

the ice flow.

 The glaciation of parts of Wyoming 

and Lackawanna Valleys.

Am. Phil. Soc. Proc. vol. 23, pp. 337-357.

Describes and gives maps of the topography 

and discusses its relation to the ice flow. Describes the drift and discusses the mechanical 

effect of the glaciation. Discusses pot-holes, 

striaj, and preglacial and postglacial drainage.

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BRANNER (J. C.) Continued.

 The thickness of the ice in Northeastern Pennsylvania during the glacial 

epoch.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 302-360.

Finds glacial stria; on top of "North Knob" 

of Elk Mountains, contrary to the statement 

of Lewis and Wright that this and other eminences of similar height were above the lino of 

glaciation.

British Columbia, glacial shell-beds, 

LAMPLUGH.

BRITTON (N. L.). [Additional notes on 

the geology of Staten Island, New 

York.]

Nat. Sci. Ass. of Staten Island, Proc. Oct. 

1886. 

Describes structure of serpentine and occurrence of other rocks. Discusses the relation to 

similar rocks of 'New York Island and the deposition and meta morphism of the original 

sediments. Calls attention to areas of preglacial drift and a driftless area north of the 

terminal moraine.

 [Fossil leaves in the Cretaceous of 

Staten Island.]

N. T. Acad. Sci. vol. 5, pp. 28-20. 

Describes the section including the bed in 

which the leaves were found.

 [Notes on the occurrence of a schistose series of crystalline rocks in the 

midst of the Adirondacks. ]

N. Y. Acad. Sci. Trans. vol. 5, p. 72.

 [On the drift at the sonth end of 

tunnel at Tompkinsville, N. Y. ]

Nat. Sci. Ass. of Staten Island, Proc. April, 

1886.

Describes contact of morainal and stratified 

drift. Discusses coast subsidence and the 

terraces of the Hudson Eiver.

 [Remarks on the floor of the Trias 

of New Jersey and the lithology of the 

tide water gneisses.]

N. Y. Acad. Sci. vol. 5, pp. 19 and 20.

Calls attention to the occurrence of slate and 

limestone on the northwestern border of the 

Trias and to the similarity of the gneisses of 

Central Park, New York, and Fairmount Park, 

Philadelphia.

 [Report on the study of the Archean 

rocks of New Jersey. ]

Annual Keport of the State Geologist [of 

N. J.] for 1885. pp. 36-55.

After ahistorical r6sum6 of former investigations there is given a description of the rocks,
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BRITTON (N. L.) Continued.

their distribution and structure, relation of 

stratified and unstratified deposits, the occurrence of magnetites and the contact phenomena 

with the Paleozoic rocks. The question of age 

is hriefly discussed. The paper is accompanied 

hy sections, with exaggerated vertical scales, 

showing the structure along a number of lines 

across the formation.

 [Results of a cruise along the shores 

of Stateu Island and New Jersey.]

Nat. Sci. Ass. of Staton Island, Proc. Sept. 

1886.

BRITTON (N. L.) Continued.

Calls attention to the exposures of drift and 

Cretaceous and to changes of coast line.

BROGGER (W. C.). On alderen af 01- 

lenelluszonen i Nordamerica.

Geol. Forening. Stockholm, Band 8, Hefte 

1-4, p. 182. 

Not seen.

Buffalo and Chicago, CLAYPOLE. 

Buried Valley. See Quaternary.

C.

California, Cretaceous, BECKER.

elevation of Sierra Nevada, LE

CONTE.

geology of Northern, DILLER. 

observations in, VOM RATH. 

profiles through Sierra Nevada,

REYER.

Cambrian, agoof Granvilleroofing slates, 

Washington Co., N. Y., WALCOTT. 

classification of, WALCOTT. 

faunas of North America, WALCOTT,

HUNT.

of New Brunswick, BAILEY. 

of North America, BROGGER. 

revision of, in Minnesota, WINCHELL.

CAMPBELL (J. L. and H. D.). Wm. 

B. Rogers' Geology of the Virginias. 

A review.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 30, pp. 357-374; vol. 

31, pp. 193-202.

Briefly states Rogers's views and gives 

much additional information, beginning with 

the Aichean and taking up each formation in 

turn.

Canada Continued.

Lake of Woods region, LAWSON. 

landslide, Ontario, SPENCER. 

Mistassini expedition, Low. . 

Rocky Mountain district, DAWSON,

McCONNELL.

schistose structure, LAWSON. 

Selkirk, shells in sand, McDoUGALL. 

Wall bridge iron mines, CHAPMAN.

See New 

Scotia.

Brunswick and Nova

coal

Canada, apatite rocks, BELL, FALDING. 

Cascade coal fields, DAWSON, MERRITT.

coal of Northwestern, KINAHAN.

Cypress Hills, Wood Mountain, and 

adjacent country, McCONNELL.

drift and sea margins at Little. Metis, 

DAWSON.

geologic survey report, SELWYN.

geology of islands in Lake Winnipeg, 

PANTON.

glacial shell beds in British Columbia, LAMPLUGH.

ice grooved rock surfaces, Vancouver 

Island, LAMPLUGH.

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Carboniferous, Alabama, Raccoon 

.field. GIBSON.

Alabama, Warrior coal field, McCALLEY.

anthracite of Pennsylvania, ASHBURNER.

Arkansas, HARVEY.

California, DILLER.

Colorado coal, HILLS.

mountain limestone, Washington Co., 

Pa., LINN.

Pittsburgh coal, D'INVILLIERS, LESLEY.

Wellersburg, Pa., fire clay, LESLEY, 

HARDEN.

Wyoming Valley, Pa., ASHBURNER.

CARLL (John F.). 

on oil and fras.

Preliminary report

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 1-81 and map. Abstract in Petroleum Age, vol. 5, No. 10, Nov. 1886, pp. 1467- 

1469,

Discusses the horizon of the oil sands, the relations of gas to oil, theories of oil and gas, and 

the present status of knowledge ia regard to 

the geology of oil.
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CARTER (Oscar C. S.). Ores, minerals,- 

and geology of Montgomery County, 

Pa., pp. 32 and map, imp. 8° [Philadelphfa, 1886].

From History of Montgomery County.

Description of deposits of copper, iron, and 

graphite, and of the more general geologic 

features as described by others. The paper is 

accompanied by a colored geologic map slightly 

differing in some respects from that published 

officially.

Central America, volcanic rocks, 

HAGUE. .

CHALMERS (R.). Preliminary report 

on the surface geology of New Brunswick.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Canada, vol. 1,11. s. GG, pp. 58 and map.

Issued separately in 1885.

CHAMBERLIN(T.C.). An inventory 

of onr glacial drift.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, pp. 195-211. 

Abstract in Science, vol. 8, pp. 156-159.

Describes outline of drift limit, points out 

varying character of margins of drift sheets, 

and states conclusions drawn therefrom as to 

different periods»of formation and agencies of 

deposition. Discusses terminal, interlobate, 

and lateral moraines; till tumuli; mammillary 

and lenticular hills; "drumlins," &c. ; also, 

classes of assorted drift: Orange sands, osars, 

kames, &c.; valley drift; moraine headed 

gravel trains; loess tracts; and lake basin deposits. Refers to speculations respecting origin of glacial epoch.

 [Report of division of Quaternary 

geology.]

Fifth Annual Repbrt of the U. S. Geol. Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 20-24.

Calls attention to some drift phenomena in 

Iowa, Nebraska, and Dakota.

 The requisite and qualifying conditions of artesian wells.

Fifth Annual Report of the U. S. Geol. Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 125-127.

Contains a discussion of the geologic elements affecting tho success of artesian wells.

CHANCE (H. M.). The anticlinal 

theory of natural gas.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. vol. 15, p. 11.

CHAPMAN (E. J.). On the Wallbridge 

hematite mine, as illustrating the stockformed mode of occurrence of certain 

ore deposits.

Roy. Soc. Canada, Proc. vol. 3, Section IV, 

pp. 23-20.

CHAPMAN'(E. J.) Continued.

Describes the crystalline rocks of the district ; discusses tho nature of some of the bedo 

and the time of extrusion of tho red syenites, 

which are thought to have been introduced in 

molten condition.

CHAUVENET (W.M.). Notes on the 

samples of iron oro collected in Alabama.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 383-399.

Occasional items of geologic information. .

 Notes on the samples of iron oro collected in Kentucky.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of tho United States, pp. 289-300 and map.

Description of geologic features of some of 

tho mines.

 Notes on tho samples of iron ore collected in Missouri.

Tenth Census: Report on tho Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 403-420. 

Geologic description of the deposits.

 Notes on the samples of iron ore collected in Tennessee.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 351-305.

Description of geologic features at some of 

the mines.

Chesapeake Bay, geology at head of, 

McGEE.

CHESTER (Frederick D.). Results from 

a study of the gabhros and associated 

amphibolites in Delaware.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 215-21C.

Supposes the gabbro to have been intruded 

between gneisses of the Philadelphia belt. Describes its petrography and distribution and 

also that of tho associated amphibolites and 

gabbro-diorites. Discusses the cause and effect of foliation and of paramorphic changes.

Cincinnati, geology of, JAMES.

CLARKE (F. W.). Report of work done 

in the division of chemistry and physics, 1884-'85.

U: S. Geol. Survey Bulletin No. 27, vol. 4, 

pp. 531-610.

Gives analyses of fayalite from Tellowstono 

Park; serpentine from Newburyport, Mass.; 

hornblende-andesite from Bogusloff Island; 

eruptive rocks from New Mexico; dacite and 

rhyolito from Washoe, Nev.; sandstone from 

Ohio and from Stony Point, Mich.; limestone 

from Randolph County, Va.; and coals and

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886 [BULL. 44.

CLARKE (F. W.) Continued.

minerals from various localities. The analyses 

were made by Clarke, Gooch, Chatard, Whitfield, and Riggs.

CLARKE (J. M.). A brief outline of the 

geological succession in Ontario County, New York, p. 14, map, 8°.

Assembly Document No. 16, Albany, 1886. 

Not seen.

CLAYPOLE (E. W.). Buffalo and Chicago, or "What might have been."

[Read to the American Association for the 

Advancement of Science, 1880.]

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 850-802.

Abstract in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 

35, p. 224.

Discusses the effect of slight causes upon the 

drainage of the great lakes and the glacial 

outlet near Chicago. Thinks that the subsidence of the St. Lawrence region was sufficient 

to necessitate the present drainage, but that it 

was more probably duo to a glacial ice dam in 

the Straits of Mackinaw during the retreat of 

the glacier.

 The old gorge at Niagara.

Science, vol. 8, p. 236.

- Discusses early drainage of the district and 

announces discovery of ledges of limestone in 

the valley from the whirlpool.

Clinton group, Alabama, Georgia, and

Tennessee, PORTER. 

of Ohio, FOERSTE.

Coal, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee,

PORTER. 

anthracite region of Pennsylvania,

ASHBURNER. 

Arkansas, HARVEY.

Colorado, HILLS.

field, Ohio, ORTON.

field, Pittsburgh, D'INVILLIERS, LESLEY.

field, Warrior, Alabama, MCCALLEY.

Mexico, COPE.

Montana, DAVIS, ELDRIDGE.

of Northwest Canada, KINAHAN.

of the Northwest, PUMPELLY.

of the United States, PRIME.

Ohio, characteristics of, ORTON.

origin, LESQUEREUX.

Raccoon field, Alabama, GIBSON.

Rocky Mountains in Canada, DAWSON, MERRITT.

Sydney, N. S., ROUTLEDCE.

Tipton Run, Pa., ASHBURNER.

Washington Territory, WILLIS

Colorado, canon, PRESTWICH. 

coal, HILLS. 

conglomerate beds of Jefferson Co.,

CROSS. . ' 

extinct geyser basin, COMSTOCK. 

observations in, VOM RATH. 

rhyolite, CROSS.

San Juan Mountains, COMSTOCK. 

trip to Telluride, San Miguel Co.,

VAN DIEST. 

veins and geology of Southwestern,

COMSTOCK.

COMSTOCK (Theodore B.). A remarkable extinct geyser basin in Southwestern Colorado.

[Read to American Association, 1886.] 

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 963-965. Abstract in 

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, p. 232.

Briefly describes mounds and other evidences of former geyser action.

 Peculiarities of the drift of the Rocky 

Mountains.

Abstract in Am. Nat. Nov. 1886, and brief 

notice in Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, 

p. 233.

Discussion of results of glacial action, characteristics of'the drift, andrelation of timber 

line to glaciation.

 The geology and vein structure of 

Southwestern Colorado.

Am. Inst. Mining Bug. Trans. vol. 15, p. 48 

and map.

After a description of the topography, the 

general geology of the district is described 

and the age and relations of the various formations are discussed, from the Archean to the 

volcanic and drift. The source of the volcanic 

rocks and the order and means of their extrusion and their relation to the veins are reviewed in detail and an account is given of the 

veins and their mineral contents. The paper 

is accompanied by a geologic map and two topographic maps.

 The veins of Southwestern Colorado.

[Read to American Association, 1886.]

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 1043-1044.

Supposes the vein history of the San Juan 

district to have commenced at the close of the 

Cretaceous. Discusses briefly the sequence of 

lava flows, dislocations, and vein formation.

Connecticut, cutting of gorges in trap

ridges, EMERSON. 

iron ore mines, PUTNAM. 

trap and sandstone at Tariffville,

RICE. 

Trias of, DAVIS. .

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DAHTON.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. 13

Continents and ocean basins, LE CONTE.

COOK (GeorgeH.). Geological survey of 

New Jersey, annual report of the State 

geologist for the year 1885, pp. 228, 8°, 

Trenton,1885.

Administrative report; introductory remarks to papers 011 geology by Britton and by 

F. J. H. Merrill; account of mining operations; 

paper on -water supply from artesian and other 

bored wells in New Jersey; drainage; forestry ; history of the geological surveys in New 

Jersey; and discussion of methods of topographic survey.

 Sketch of the geology of the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of New 

Jersey.

In Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiataof the 

Karitan Clays and Greeusand Marls of Now 

Jersey, by R. P. Whitfield, U. S. Geol. Survey, 

Monograph No. 9, pp. ix-xiii and ru:ip -in 

pocket. (Also published by New Jersey Geological Survey.)

Describes and shows the areal distribution, 

structure, and stratigraphy of the formations. 

Discusses the age of the post-Cretaceous 

formations of Southern New Jersey.

[COPE (E. D.).] [On the recent earthquake.]

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 869-870.

Discusses the cause and calls attention to a 

fault along the fall line of the Atlantic seaboard.

 Report on the coal deposits near 

Zacualtipan, in the State of Hidalgo, 

Mexico.

Am. Phil. Soc. Proc. vol. 23, pp. 14G-151. 

Describes the geology of the coal bearing 

Cretaceous beds and the associated trap rocks.

CORNING (Frederick G.). The gold 

deposits'of the Tipuaui River, Bolivia, 

S. A.

Eng. and Mining Journal, vol. 42, pp. 58-00. 

Describes the gravels and the rocks upon 

which they lie.

CRAGIN (F. W.). Further notes on the 

Dakota gypsum of Kansas.

Washburn Coll. Lab. Bulletin, vol. 1, pp. 100- 

168.

Discusses its stratigraphic position and genesis. Describes new localities.

GRAND ALL (A. R.). The occurrence 

*of trap rocks in Eastern Kentucky.

Am. Asa. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 230-237.

Describes dike in Carboniferous of Elliott 

County. .(See also paper on. same by J. S. Diller.)

Cretaceous, California, BECKER, LE

CONTE.

coal of Northwest Canada, KINAHAN. 

coal of Rocky Mountains, MERRITT. 

fauna of New Jersey, WHITFIELD. 

flora of North America, NEWBERRY. 

floras of the Northwest, DAWSON. 

Montana, HAYDEN. 

Nebraska, HICKS. 

New Jersey, COOK. 

Staten Island, N. Y., BRITTON. 

Texas, HILL.

CROSBY (Wm. O.). Common minerals 

and rocks, pp. 205, 12°, Boston, 1836.

[Guides for Science Teaching.]

 Notes on joint structure.

Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc. 1885, pp. 243-248.

Discusses previous views on joint structure. 

Describes joints in Miocene sediments on Potomac River and in felsito at Needham, Mass.

CROSS (Whitman). On the occurrence 

of topaz and garnet iu lithophyses of 

rhyolite.

[Read to Colorado Scientific Society.] 

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 432-438. 

Describes mode of occurrence and petrography of the rhyolito.

 and EAKINS (L. G.). 

On ptilolite, a now mineral.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 117-121.

[Read before the Colorado Scientific Society, 

May, 1886.]

Incidentally describes some features of the 

conglomerate beds of Jefferson County, Colorado, and the audesito pebbles of which it is 

chiefly composed.

CROZIER (A. A.). Evidences of glacial 

action on the shores of Lake Superior.

Science, vol. 7, p. 145.

Calls attention to glacial grooves and scratches 

about Peninsula Harbor and terrace on Verte 

Island in Nipigon Bay.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOE 1886. [HULL. 44i

D.

Dakota, drift, CHAMBERLIN. : DALE (T. Nelson). New England Upper Silurian.

Canadian Inst. Proc. vol. 22, pp. 69-70.

Describes the metamorphosed Helderberg 

rocks at Bernardston, Mass., and Littleton, 

N. H.

DANA (James D.). A dissected volcanic 

mountain ; some of its revelations.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 247-255.

Describes the Island of Tahiti, its topography and erosion, and the structure of its lava 

flows and volcanoes.

 On the Lower Silurian fossils from a 

limestone of the original Tacouic of 

Emmons.

[Bead to American Association, 1885.] 

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 241-248. 

Briefly reviews Emmoiis's Taconic theories 

and calls attention to the danger of correlating formations by lithologic analogies. Describes the occurrence of fossils at Canaan in 

the "Sparry" limestones of Emmons, in the 

same general vicinity near the overlying slates, 

and also in detached masses'of limestone. 

Traces the same limestone belt northward 

across Massachusetts into Vermont.

 [On volcanic eruption.]

Am. Jour. Sci. in, vol. 31, pp. 395-397.

 The history of Taconic investigation 

previous to the work of Professor Eminons.

[Opening part of address to Berkshire Historical Society.]

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 399-400.

Describes Eaton and Dewey's geologic studies in the Taconic district.

 The Taconic stratigraphy and fossils.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill,, vol. 32, pp. 236-239.

Gives a brief r6sum6 of the stratigraphy and 

structure of the Taconic district. Discusses 

the possibility of superposition by overthrust, 

with negative conclusion. Calls attention to 

increase of the amount of metamorphism eastward and to its effects upon organic remains.

[ ] Geologic age of the North Atlantic 

oceanic basin and origin of Eastern 

American sediments.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 407-408.

Describes the derivation of the American 

Paleozoic from the Archean border in opposi 

tion to Hull's idea of their origination from the 

district now covered by the Atlantic.

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DARTON (Nelson H.). [Notes on the 

formations associated with the Green 

Pond Mountain series and on the geology of Orange County, New York.]

Mineral Physiology and Physiography, by T. 

Sterry Hunt, p. 591.

Calls attention to the occurrence of Upper 

Silurian limestones at -Upper Longwood and 

Newfoundland, N. J., and to some points in the 

geology of Orange County.

 On the area of Upper Silurian rocks 

near Cornwall Station, Eastern-Central 

Orange County, New York.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 209-210.

Describes Lower Helderberg limestones and 

underlying conglomerate, forming an outlier 

far from the main mass of the formation; the 

"Water Lime, Pentameros, and Delthyris Shale 

being recognized, the last by finely preserved 

fossils of many species, some peculiarities of 

which are described.

 The Taconic controversy in a nutshell.

Science, vol. 7, pp. 78-79.

Calls attention to the significance of his discovery, and that of Dale and others, of the occurrence of Trenton fossils in the slates of 

Orange County, N. T.

Davenport, Iowa, geology, BARKIS.

DA VIS (William M.). The structure ot 

the Triassic formation of the Connecticut Valley.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 342-352.

Abstract in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 

35, pp. 224-227.

Discusses the Triassic monoclines and the 

means by which they were effected. Calls attention to the presence of strike faults in Connecticut and Massachusetts and describes the 

structure of Toket and Pond Mountains as an 

instance. Discusses the possible extension of 

the Trias over the area now separating the 

New Jersey and Connecticut districts and the 

mode of separation. Discusses faulting in general and advances a hypothesis to account for 

themonoclinal structure and themany observed 

faults. Presents some evidence upon which 

the hypothesis is based.

 Relation of the coal of Montana to the 

older rocks.

Tenth Census: Keport on the Mining Indus.- 

tries of the United States, pp. 697-737,
DAHTON.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. 15

DAVIS (W. M.) Continued.

Detailed geologic description of an area of 

about 10,000 square miles in Soutb-Central 

Montana. Lists of fossils by "Whitflekl and 

description of eruptive rocks by Lindgren.

DAWSON (George M.)- Preliminary 

report on the physical and geological 

features of that portion of the Rocky 

Mountains between lat. 49° and 50° 30'.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Canada, vol. 1, n. a. B, pp. 107 and map.

Account of previous explorations and reports. Description of physiography, flora, and 

the distribution, stratigraphy, structure, and 

relations of the geologic formations. The paper is illustrated by plates from photographs, 

a colored map, and sections of the Cascade coal 

district and of a portion of the Rocky Mountains.

DAWSON (Sir William). Cretaceous 

floras of the Northwest.

Canadian Eec. Sei. vol. 2, pp. 1-2.

Discusses horizon of the Xootanic and of the 

other groups and the climate and floral conditions at the time of their deposition.

 Geology of the Atlantic Ocean.

[Address to British Association, September, 

1886.]

Canadian Eec. Sci. vol. 30, pp. 201-228 and 

265-285. Also in Popular Science Monthly, 

vol, 30, pp. 41-51,184-194, and Sci. Amer. Supt. 

vol. 22, pp. 9020-9023.

Discusses the Appalachian flexures and the 

derivation of the materials of the formations of 

the Eastern United States.

 Note on bowlder drift and sea margin s 

at Little Metis, Lower St. Lawrence.

. Canadian Eec. Sci. vol. 2, pp. 36-38.

Describes the beaches and terraces and discusses their origin.

 On the Mesozoic floras of tbe Rocky 

Mountain region of Canada,

Eoy. Soo. Canada, Trans. vol. 3, Sec. IV,' 

pp. 1-22 and pi.

Includes a brief description of the formations, their horizon, structure, and history, by 

G. M. Dawson. Discusses the geologic relation 

of the floras.

Delaware, gabbros &c., CHESTER.

Devonian, Chernung. section, Bradford

County, Pa., LILLEY. 

classification of Upper, WILLIAMS. 

Oriskany in Lycoming County, Pa.,

WOOLMAN. 

revision of Caynga Lake section, N.

Y., WILLIAMS. 

Tully Limestone, WILLIAMS,

DILLER (J. S.). Notes on the geology of 

'Northern California.

U. S. Geol. Survey Bulletin No. 33, vol. 5, pp. 

369-387.

Describes the carboniferous limestones, the 

structure of the Sierra Nevada, and the genoral distribution of the metamorphic, volcanic, 

and cretaceous rocks. Discusses the ago of the 

faulting of the Sierra Nevada, the age of the 

auriferous slates, and the relation of the Sierra, 

Coast, and Cascade Eanges.

 Notes on the peridotito of Elliott 

County, Kentucky.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 121-125.

Describes the petrographic nature of the 

dikes in the carboniferous sandstones and 

shales in Eastern Kentucky and discusses their 

relations to the strata, arriving at the conclusion that the peridotite has beon intruded into 

its present position.

Dinocerata, MARSH.

D'lNVILLIERS (E. V.). Preliminary 

report of work done in 1885 on the resurvey of the Pittsburgh coal region.

Annual Eeport of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 125-221 and pi.

Lists of elevations, description of geologic 

structure and of the Pittsburgh and associated coal beds and rocks.

 The Cornwall iron ore miues,Lebauou 

County, Pa.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. pp. 32 and map.

Describes the geology and structure of the 

district; the trap rocks and their relations to 

the shales and limestones. The paper is accompanied by a map and geologic sections.

 See, also, Lesley (J. P.) and D'lnvilliers(E. V.).

District of Columbia, geology of, McGEE.

Drift. See Quaternary.

DRUMMOND (A. T.). Our northwest 

prairies; their origin and their forests. 

Canadian Eec. Sci. vol. 2, pp. 145-153. 

Describes some features of the drift deposits 

and discusses the effect of glacial action.

DWIGHT (William B.). Recent explorations in the Wappiuger Valley limestone of Dutchess County, N. Y., No. 5. 

Discovery of fossiliferous Potsdam 

strata at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 

[Eead to American Association.] 

Am. Jour, Sci, III, vol. 31, pp. 125-133 and pL 

VI.

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16 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. [BULL. 44.

DWIGHT (W. B.) Continued. ~

Abstract in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 

34, pp. 204-209.

Describes lithology and stratigraphy of the 

district in which Hudson River, Calciferous, 

Trenton, and Potsdam are associated. All are 

fossiliforous. Finds a fault bringing first and 

and last in contact and traces it to the Hudson 

near Clinton Point post office. Gives a map of 

. district and section showing relations at fault 

line.

DWIGHT (W. B.) Continued.

 The peculiar structure of dark's 

clay beds near Newburgh, N. Y.

Vassar Brothers lust. Trans. vol. 3, pp. 

86-97. Describes the clays of the Hudson Valley. Gives an account and figures of clay filled 

pot-holes in faulted block of sand near Clark's 

Dock Station.

 See, also, Ford (S. F.) and Dwight 

(W. B.).

E.

EAKINS (L. G.). See Cross (Whitman).

Earthquakes, COPE, NEWBERRY, PowELL.

ELDRIOGE (George H.). Montana coal 

fields.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 739-759.

Detailed descriptions of tlie various coal beds 

 and the structural and stratigraphicrelations of 

the associated formations.

ELLS (R. W.). On the geological formations of Eastern Albert and Westnioreland Counties, N. B., and of portions of 

'Cumberland and Colchester Counties,

N. S.

Annual Keport of the Geol. Survey of Canada, 

vol. 1, n. s. E, p. 66 and map.

Issued separately in 1885.

EMERSON (B. K.). Holyoke trap range.

[Road to American Association, 1886.1 

Brief abstracts in Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32,

pp. 323-324, and Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol.

35, pp. 233-234.

EMERSON (B. K.) Continued.

Describes structure, volcanic phenomena, 

and petrography of the district.

 Preliminary note on the succession 

of the crystalline rocks and their various degrees of rnetamorphisrn in the 

Connecticut River region.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, p. 231.

"A comparison of the Bernardston fossiliferous section with the successive bands of the 

same series eastward where the metamorphism 

gradually increases."

 The age and cause of the gorges cut 

through the trap ridges by the Connecticut and its tributaries.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, p. 232. .

'' The gorges were cut by the preglacial 

drainage and the streams wore restored to their 

old course by the position of their deltas."

EMMONS (S. F.). The genesis of certain ore deposits.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. pp. 22, 1886.

Erosion, KING.

F.

FALDING (F. J.). Notes on Canadian 

fluor-apatite or fluor-pL.ospb.ate of lime.

Eng. and Mining Jour. vol. 42, pp. 383-384, 

403-404.

Describes some features of the rocks in' which 

the mineral occurs.

Fault and fall line of Atlantic coastal

plain, COPE. 

Fire clay, Wellersburg, Pa., LESLEY,

HARDEN. 

Florida, Numinellite limestone, HEILPRIN.

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Florida Continued.

west coast geology, HEILPRIN.

geology of, KOST.

FOERSTE (Aug. F.). The Clinton group 

of Ohio, with descriptions of new species.

Scientific lab. of DenisonUniv. Bulletin No. 

1, PP- 63-120 and pis. 13-14.

Describes structural and stratigraphic relations of the Clinton and Niagara at many localities and along several section lines.
DARTON.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OP GEOLOGY FOE 1886.

FORD (S. W.) and DWIGHT (W.B.). 

Preliminary report upon the fossils obtained in 1885 from metamorphic limestones of the Taconic series of Emrnous, 

at Canaan, N. Y.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 248-255 and pi. 

VII.

Description of the limestone outcrop from 

which the fossils were obtained.

PRAZER (Persifor). Sketch of the geology of York County, Pennsylvania.

Am. Phil. Soc. Proc. vol. 23, pp. 391-410 and 

map.

Gives a hrief description of the formations 

and discusses their stratigraphic and structural 

relations and their equivalency and horizon.

FRAZER (P.) Continued.

Eeviews the portion of "Wadsworth and Whitney's Azoic system as applied to Southeastern 

Pennsylvania. The paper is accompanied hy a 

map colored in accordance with the proposed 

scheme of the International Congress.

 The work of the International Congress of Geologists and of its committees, pp. 109 and pi. 8°, 1886.

FREEMAN (H. C.). The geologic distribution of natural gas.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. Oct. 1886, pp. 

3.

Discusses occurrence of gas and geologic relations of LaSalle County and adjacent parts of 

Illinois and adjoining' States.

G.

Gas,

anticlinal theory of, CHANCE, WHITEdistribution in United States, ASHBURNER.

geologic distribution, FREEMAN. 

in Ohio, ORTOX. 

See, also, Oil.

GEIKIE (Archibald). Class book of 

geology, 18+516 pp. 12°, London, 1886. 

'Not seen.

GEIKIE (James). Outlines of geology, 

pp. 484,8°, London, 1886.

Occasional references to well known American geologic features.

Geological surveys, GILBERT. 

Georgia, iron ore and coal, PORTER.

GIBSON(A.M.). Report on the Eaccoon 

Mountain coal field.

Eeport on the "Warrior coal field, Alabama 

Geological Survey, pp. 544-555.

Describes topography, stratigraphy, and 

structure of the district.

GILBERT (Grove Karl). An account of 

some new geologic wrinkles.

[Read to American Association, 1886,] 

Brief abstract in Am. Jour. Scl. Ill, vol. 32, 

p. 324, and Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, 

p. 227.

Describes small, postglacial anticlines in horizontal limestones of Western New York and 

discusses their cause.

[ ]" Geological survey of the United 

States: geology and explorations.

Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia for 1885, pp. 

401-408.

Bull 44 2 (359)

GILBERT (G. K.) Continued.

 Inculcation of scientific method by 

example.

[ Address to American Society of Naturalists. ] 

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 284-299, 1 pi. 

Discusses the causes of deformation of basin 

of Lake Bonneville.

 [Report of the division of the Great 

Basin.]

Fifth Annual Koport of the U. S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 30-34.

Eefers to the deformation of the basin of Lake 

Bonneville.

 The place of Niagara Falls in geologic history.

Abstract in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 

35, pp. 222-223, and brief abstract in Am. Jour. 

Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 322-323, and Science, vol. 8, 

p. 205.

Discusses the tilting of the shore lines of 

Lakes Ontario and Erie and their glacial outlets, the birth of the Niagara Eiver, and the 

rate and amount of recession of the falls.

 The topographic features of lake 

shores.

Fifth Annual Eeport of the II. S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-84, pp. 69-123.

Discusses the formation of lake shores and 

their topography, illustrated by the. ancient 

lakes of the Great Basin and Lakes Superior 

and Michigan. Contrasts the topographic results of fluvial, glacial, and littoral deposits.

GILPIN (Edwin). The geology of Cape 

Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Geol. Soc. Quart. Jour. vol. 42, pp. 515-526 and
18 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. [BULL. 44.

QILPIN (E.) Continued.

Describes the various formations and their 

relation and structure. The paper is accompanied by a geologic map.

 The Nova Scotia gold mines.

Ain. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. vol. 14, pp. 674- 

C88 and map.

Discusses the age and genesis of the gold 

bearing rocks and describes their structure and 

relations to associated formations. The paper 

is accompanied by a geologic map of the southern half of Nova Scotia.

Glaciers, RUSSELL, ALLEN.

GRANT (C. E.). Notes on Pleistocene 

fossils from Anticosti.

Canadian Rec. Sci. vol. 2, pp. 44-46.

Describes some features of the clay beds in 

which the fossils occur and calls attention to 

an apparent rising of the island.

GRATACAP (L. P.). Fish remains and 

tracks in the Triassic rocks at Weehawken, N. J.

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 243-246. 

Incidentally describes the shales and sandstones at the trap contact.

H.

HAGUE (Arnold) and IDDINGS (Joseph P.). Notes on the volcanic rocks 

of the Republic of Salvador, Central 

America.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 26-31.

Describes some interesting rocks, including 

basalt, pyroxene-andesite, hornblende-pyroxene-andesite, hornblende-mica-andesite, dacite, 

and possibly rhyolite. Discusses their relation 

to rocks'of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin 

of the United States.

HARDEN (E. B.). Report on fire clay 

of Wellersburg coal basin.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 239-240.

Description of the clay bed and its geologic 

relations and structure.

HARVEY (F. L.). On Anthracomartus 

trilobitns Scud.

Phila.Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc. vol. 16, pp. 231- 

232.

Incidentally describes some features of the 

coal fields of Northern Arkansas.

 The minerals and rocks of Arkansas, 

pp. 32, 8°, Philadelphia, 1886.

Gives a general review of Arkansas geology 

and references to localities of rocks.

HAYDEN (Ferdinand Vandeveer). [Report on geologic studies in Montana. ]

Fifth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 28-30.

Notes outcrops of Cretaceous and Larainie 

in district studied.

HEILPRIN (Angelo). Explorations on 

the western coast of Florida and in the 

Okeechobee wilderness, with special 

reference to the geology and zoology, 

pp. 127 and pis. 8°, Philadelphia, 1886. 

Pages 1-64 and plates not yet issued.

HEILPRIN (A.) Continued.

Presents general summary and conclusions 

in regard to the geology of Florida on pp. 65- 

67 and gives a table showing the relations of 

the Atlantic and Gulf Tertiaries of the United 

States, pp. 127.

 Notes on the Tertiary geology and 

paleontology of the Southern United 

States.

Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc. vol. IB, pp. 57-58.

Recognizes, from fossils, beds of Claibornian 

horizon in San Augustine County, Texas; the 

Nummulitic near Gainesville, -Pla.; and the 

Lower Eocene in Kentucky near Paducah.

HICKS (L.E.). Some typical well sections in Nebraska. .

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, pp. 217-219.

Graphic sections from the Brownville, Lincoln, and St. Helena wells, with explanatory 

notes.

 The Dakota group south of the Platte 

River in Nebraska.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 217-219.

Describes the stratigraphy, structure, fossils, and topography of the group and details 

of its unconformable deposition on the 7?ermoCarboniferous.

 The Lincoln salt basin.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, p. 219. 

Considers the salt basin the remnant of a 

Cretaceous sea border.

 The Permian in Nebraska.

Am. Nat. vol. 20. pp. 881-883. Abstract in Am. 

 Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, pp. 216-217.

Considers the calcareous beds in the valley 

of Blue River, Gage County, of Permian age. 

They may be unconformable to the under-

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HICKS (L. E.) Continued.

lying Coal Measures and their contact with 

the overlying Cretaceous shows unconformity 

by erosion. About 10 per cent, of the fossils 

carboniferous. Thickness unknown. Discussed by Newberry, Walcott, Davis, Claypole, and H. S. Williams in Am. Jour. Sci. in, 

vol. 32, pp. 321-322.

HILGARD (E. W.). Dr. Otto Meyer and 

the Southwestern Tertiary.

Science, vol. 7, p. 11.

D^cusses Meyer's theory that the Grand 

Gulf group overlies the Vicksburg group.

HILL (Frank A.)- Description of the 

Wyoming Buried Valley between Pittston and Kingston.

Annual Report of tho Geol. Survey of Pa. 

for 1885, pp. 637-647.

Description of drift deposits and evidence

from bore holes.

HILL (Robert T.). Salient geologic features of Travis County, Texas. 

Austin Statesman, December 15, 1886. 

Describes topography and the subdivisions 

of the Cretaceous of the district.

HILLS (R.C.). Remarks on the occurrence of coal in the Carboniferous formation at Aspen and Greenwood 

Springs, Colorado.

Colorado Sci. Soc. Proo. vol. 2, pp. 25-26. 

Describes thin seam of impure bituminous 

coal in Middle Carboniferous.

HITCHCOCK (C. H.). Geological map 

of the United States and part of Canada. Compiled to illustrate the scheme 

of coloration and nomenclature recommended by the International Geological 

Congress.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Traus. map 17 by 27 

inches, explanation, pp. 24, 1886.

On tho map there are left uncolored areas in 

California, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah. With 

some exceptions, the information on McGee's 

map is incorporated. In tho explanation, previous maps are described and attention is called 

to the differences between them. The sources 

of information are given, as well as reasons for 

changes in the present map.

HONEYMAN (D.). Geology of Cornwallis or McNab's Island, Halifax Harbor.

Roy. Soc. Canada Trans. vol. 3, sec. 4, p. 27. 

Describes the drift deposit.

HOOKER (W. A.). Notes on ruining in 

Oaxaca.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. pp. 8.

Briefly describes some of the geologic features of the district.

HOUTHUMB (C. A.). Aus den Oelrogionen Pennsylvaniens. 

Pels zum Meer, July, 1886.

HOVEY (H. C.). Niagara River, gorge 

and falls.

Sci. Am. Supt. vol. 22, No. 538, p. 8917.

Gives a summary of the discussion on the

subject before the American Association and

discusses some of the evidence.

HOWE (James Lewis). Lithographic 

stone from Tennessee.

Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. Jour. 1885-'86, pp. 

144-145. 

Gives analyses.

Hudson Bay district, BELL.

HULL (Edward). The geological age of 

the North Atlantic Ocean. 

Nature, vol. 34, p. 496.

Discusses the source of the material of some 

of the American Paleozoic formations.

HUNT (T. Sterry). Mineral physiology 

and physiography. A second series of 

chemical and geological essays. 17, 710 

pp. 8°, Boston, 1886. f

Besides reprints of former papers, discusses 

thegenetichistory of crystalline rocks, thehistoryofttie pre-Cainbrian rocks, andtheTaconic 

question. Discusses recent information in 

regard to tho rocks at tho head of the Bay of 

Fundy, the Lake Superior district (pp. 579, 

611, and 621), the Cambrian of Utah (p. 623) 

and of the Grand Canon (p. 624), Texas (p. 624) 

and of the Taconic region (pp. 627,629, 643, 645, 

and 647). On p. 591 has notes by Darton on 

the Green-Pond Mountain series and associated formations.

I.

Idaho, Pliocene sands, MERRILL. 

IDDINGS (Joseph P.). The columnar

structure in the igneous rock on Orange

Mountain, New Jersey.

[Bead to Philosophical Society of Washington.]

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IDDINGS (J. P.) Continued.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 321-331 and 

plate ix. '

Abstract in Washington Phil. Soc. Bull. 8, 

pp. 19-24.

Describes exposure in" which, very perfect, 

large columns are capped by smaller ones with
20 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. | BULL. 44.

IDDINGS (J. P.) Continued.

radial structure, the plate showing the relations. Concludes that both belong to the same 

flow. Discusses cause of columnar structure. 

Describes microscopic character of the rock 

and considers the sheet a lava flow rather than 

intrusive.

 See, also, Hague (Arnold).

Illinois, Quaternary, WORTHEN.

gas, FREEMAN. 

Indiana, geologic map, BRANNER.

Iowa, drift, CHAMBERLIN.

Davenport, geology, BARRIS. 

movement of glaciers, IRISH.

IRISH (C. W.). Movement of the glaciers 

of the ice period in Iowa and its vicinity. 

Iowa Hist. Record, vol. 1, pp. 162-185. 

Describes many features of the topography, 

drainage, and drift deposits;

Iron ore, Alabama, CHAUVENET.

Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee,

PORTER. 

and schists of Northwest, IRVING,

VAN HISE. 

Connecticut and Massachusetts mines,

. PUTNAM.

Cornwall mines, Pennsylvania, D'lNVILLIERS, LESLEY, WILLIS. 

distribution in United States, PUMPELLY. 

district of the Tipper Mississippi,

WILLIS.

Kentucky mines, CHAUVENET. 

magnetites of Eastern Pennsylvania,

WILLIS.

Maryland, BENTON. 

Michigan and Northern Wisconsin, 

,. PUTNAM, WILLIS. 

Missouri, CHAUVENET. 

New Jersey; PUTNAM.

Iron C ontinued.

New York, PUTNAM. 

Northern New England, BENTON. 

North Carolina, WILLIS. 

Ohio, WILLIS.

. Pennsylvania, PUTNAM, WILLIS. 

pyrites, deposits of the Alleghanies,

WENDT.

Tennessee, CHAUVENET, WILLIS. 

Tilly Foster mine, RUTTMAN. 

United States, VOGDES, PUMPELLY. 

Virginia, CHAUVENET. 

Wallbridge, Canada, CHAPMAN. 

west of the one hundredth meridian,

PUTNAM. 

Wyoming, AUGHEY.

IRVING (R. D.). Origin of the ferruginous schists and iron ores of the Lake 

Superior region.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 255-272.

Discusses the various theories and the general 

question of metamorphism. Describes the 

general features and petrography of the iron 

bearing formations of the region and deduces 

therefrom a theory to account for the origin of 

the ores.

 Preliminary paper on an investigation of the Archean formations of the 

Northwestern States.

Fifth. Annual Eeport of the U. S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 175-242 and pi.

Gives a general account of the problems to 

be attacked, a description of areas of Huronian and supposed Huronian age, and a preliminary geologic map. Describes the petrography 

and discusses the evidence of enlargements of 

mineral fragments in certain detrital rocks of

the region, and metamorphism in theHuronian.

 Tornebohm oil the formation of 

quartzite by enlargement of the ouartz 

fragments of sandstone.

Am. Jour. Sci. ILT, vol. 31, pp. 225-226

J.

JAMES (Joseph F.). The geology of 

Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. vol. 9, pp. 20- 

31,136-141.

Describes the rock formations and drift terraces.

Joint structure, CROSBY.

JUKES-BROWN (A. J.). The student's 

hand book of historical geology, pp. 12, 

597, 12°, New York, 1886. 

Not seen.

JULIEN(A. A.). [Remarks on the thin 

bedded gneiss border of the Adirondack 

region.]

N. T. Acad. Sci. Trains, vol. 5, p. 72.

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DAHXON.J BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. 21

K.

Kansas, notes on gypsum deposits, CRAGIN.

Kaolin, Brandy wine Summit, Delaware

County, Pa., ASHBURNER. 

Chester and Delaware County, Pa., 

LESLEY.

Kentucky, iron mines, CHAUVENET. 

Lower Eocene, HEILPRIN. 

trap rocks of Eastern, CRANDALL, 

DILLER.

KINAHAN (G. H.). Note on the coal 

deposits of the northwest territories of 

Canada.

Dublin Eoy. Geol. Soc. Jour. vol. 6, pp. 275- 

287. 

'JTotseen.

KING- (F. H.). Internal chemical and 

mechanical erosion a factor in continent and mountain building.

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 53-57.

Discusses the possibilities of underground 

chemical solution decreasing the strength and 

amount of solid matter in continents and the 

results.

KOST (J.). Geology of Florida. 

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, p. 231. 

Brief abstract of general description.

KUCH (R.). Petrographische Mittheilungen aus den siidamericanischen Andeii.

Jfeues Jahrbuch, Band I, pp. 35-48, 188C.

On rhombic pyroxene in andesites and its 

determination; describes quartz -pyroxeneamlesite of Cumbal and dacite-pearlite from 

Loma de Ales and gives chemical analyses.

L.

Lake Bonneville, GILBERT.

Lake Lahontan, RUSSELL.

Lake shores, topography, GILBERT.

Lake Superior, glacial action on shores,

CROSIER. 

Lake Superior copper mines, WHEELER.

L AMPLUGH (G. W.). On glacial shell 

beds in British Columbia.

Geol. Soc. Quart. Jour. vol. 42, pp. 270-286.

Describes beds of Vancouver Island and in 

valley of Eraser Eiver. Discusses time of 

deposition.

- On ice grooved rock surfaces near 

Victoria, Vancouver Island ; with notes 

on the glacial phenomena of the neighboring region and on the Muir glacier 

of Alaska.

Yorkshire Geol. and Poly. Soc. Proc. vol. 9, 

n. s. pp. 57-70.

LANGDON (D. W.). Observations on 

the Tertiary of Mississippi and Alabama, 

with description of new species.

Am. Jour. Sci. m, vol. 31, pp. 202-209.

Describes sections along Pearl Eiver from 

Jackson to Tazoo City; dips in the main southward. The Jackson beds underlie the "Vicksburg and OrbitoidesLimestone. The Alabama 

prairies supposed to be underlaid by Tuomey's 

White Limestone. Describes sections at St. 

Stephens Bluff, Bladen's Springs, near Enterprise, west of Meridian, and near Claiborno.

LAWSON (A. C.). On the geology of 

the Lake of the Woods region, with, 

special reference to the Keewatin (Huron i an?) belt of the Archean rocks.

Annual Eeport of Geol. Survey of Canada 

vol. 1, n. s. CC, p. 141.

Issued separately in 1885.

 Some instances of gneissic foliation 

and schistose cleavage in dikes and 

their bearing upon the problem of the 

origin of the Archean rocks.

Canadian Inst. Proc. vol. 32, pp. 115-128.

Discusses foliation and metamorphism. Describes and figures instances of foliation in 

dikes at various "West Canadian localities.

LE CONTE (Joseph). A post-Tertiary 

elevation of the Sierra Nevada shown 

by the river beds.

[Presented to the National Academy of 

Sciences.]

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 167-181.

Discusses the effect of orographic movements 

on drainage. Calls attention to some features of 

the history of Colorado and Mississippi Elvers. 

Describes river beds of parts of California. 

Discusses some structural features of the 

Great Basin, the relation of the post-Tertiary 

movements to the great 'lava flo'od and to the 

great fissures and normal faults of the West, 

the contemporaneous elevation of the west 

side of South America and subsidence of the

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22 BIBLIOGEAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. [BULL. 44.

LE CONTE(J.) Continued.

mid-Pacific bottom, and the cause of the move- 

, ments. In conclusion, makes an estimate of

the amount of elevation and erosion.

 Compend of geology, 12°, New York,

1886.

 On the permanence of continents and 

ocean basins, with special reference to 

the formation and development of the 

North American continent.

Geol. Mag. n. s. vol. 3, pp. 97-101. 

! Discusses relation of land and sea areas in 

Archean and in lower Silurian times and the 

source of sediments of the formations.

LESLEY (J. P.). Annual report of the 

geological survey of Pennsylvania for 

1885, pp. 769, 18 pi. and atlas of maps, 

8°, Harrisburg, 1886.

t Administrative report and history of the 

survey. Geological papers by Carll, Lesquereux, D'lnvilliers, Lesley, Ashburner, Linn, 

Linton, Harden, and Hill, and paper on the 

geodetic survey of the State by Merriinan.

 Dr. Orton's Ohio gas and oil report.

Science, vol. 8, pp. 233-235.

' Discusses the formation of petroleum, cavernous limestones, underground drainage and 

erosion, and the cause and age of the Cincinnati uplift. Describes some features of difference between the geology of Pennsylvania and 

Ohio.

 Some general considerations of the 

pressure, quantity, composition, and 

fuel value of rock gas or the natural 

gas of the oil regions of Pennsylvania.

Annual Report of the Geological Survey of 

Pa. for the year 1885, pp. 057-680.

Discusses movement of fragmental material, 

of rocks due to underground erosion and porosity, the resulting pressure and its relation 

to the pressure under which oil and gas are 

found. Calls attention to areas of the State 

that are barren of oil and gas and to those likely 

to yield them.

 Some general considerations respecting the origin and distribution of the 

Delaware and Chester kaolin deposits.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 571-591 and map.

Discusses strike and linear extent of crystalline rocks of the district. Calls attention to 

parallelism of strike of kaolin and limestones, 

some of which are thought to be altered Lower 

Silurian. Advances thti hypothesis that decomposition of gneisses &c. is greatly increased 

by solutions from adjacent limestones &c., and 

that this has been the cause of the deep decom-

(364)

LESLEY (J. P.) Continued.

position at the Hoosac tunnel, in parts of the 

Southern Atlantic States, and elsewhere. Discusses the origin of kaolin, of the cretaceous 

clays of the coastal plain, and the relation of 

rock decay to structure, texture, and composisition.

 The coal beds and fire clays of the 

Wellersburg basin in Somerset County.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 227-229.

Describes the geology and structure of the 

district and discusses the horizon of some of 

the beds.

 The geology of the Pittsburgh coal 

' region.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. pp. 39.

Describes the coal beds of "Western Pennsylvania and westward; discusses their former 

extent, the gap between the Carboniferous and 

Trias in Pennsylvania, the horizon and extension of various Carboniferous beds, the Devonian beds and oil sands, and the structure 

of bituminous, district.

 and D'lNVILLIERS (E.V.). Eeport on Cornwall iron ore mines, 

Lebanon County.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 491-570 and map.

Describes the geology in detail. Discusses 

the means and mode of intrusion of the 'trap, 

the relation of the ore beds and Mesozoic, the 

genesis of the ore, and the age and relations of 

the associated slates. In a supplementary 

note Lesley calls attention to the similarity of 

Cornwall and Dillsburg deposits. The paper 

is illustrated by heliotypes- of outcrops and of 

two relief models, and by maps.

LESQUEREUX (Leo). On the vegetable origin of coal.

Annual Report of the Geol. Survey of Pa. for 

1885, pp. 95-121. 

Discussion of theories on the subject.

LEWIS (H. Carvill). Some examples of 

pressure fluxion in Pennsylvania.

British Ass. Rep. for 1885, pp. 1029-1030.

States his opinion that the belt of Laurentian 

rocks of Southeastern Pennsylvania are of 

eruptive origin, consisting of highly metamorphosed syenites, acid gabbros, trap granulites, 

&c.

 Comparative studies upon the glaciation of North America, Great Britain,

and Ireland.

[Read to British Association, Sept. 188C.] 

Am. Nat. vol. 20, pp. 919-927,and Nature, vol.

35, pp. 89. 

Refers to some well known phenomena of

American glaciation.
DABTON.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. 23

LILLEY (A. T.). A revision of the section of Chemnng rock exposed in the 

Gulf Brook gorge at Le Roy, Bradford 

County, Pennsylvania. 

Am. Phil. Soc. Proc. vol. 23, pp. 291.

LINDGREN (Waldemar). Eruptive 

rocks [of Montana coal districts].

. Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 719-737.

General descriptions of the occurrence of 

the eruptive rocks of South-Central Montana 

and of their lithologic characters.

LINN (Alouzo) andLINTON (Edward). 

Notes on tbe mountain limestone (at the 

base of No. XI) in the Washington 

County gas wells.

Annual Eeport of the Geol.. Survey of Pa. 

for 1885, pp. 222-226.

LINN (A.) and LINTON (E.) Cont'd.

Description of lithology of the beds and

their stratigraphic position. Supplementary

note by J. P. Lesley on the stratigraphy and

mode of deposition.

LINTON (Edward). See LINN (Alonzo). 

Long Island, N. Y., geology, MERBILL.

LOW (A. P ). On the Mistassini expedition.

Annual Eeport of the Geol. Survey of Canada, vol. 1, n. a. D, p. 46, and map.

Describes and maps distribution of Laurentian, Huronian, Cambrian, and superficial formations, giving an account of their general 

stratigraphy and structural relations.

Lower .Silurian. See Silurian, Lower.

M.

McCALLEY (Henry). On toe Warrior 

coal field.

Geological Survey of Alabama, pp. 571, 8°, 

1886.

After a preliminary general description, the 

topography, stratigraphy, and structure of the 

coal counties are described in detail.

McCONNELL (E. G.). Ou the Cypress 

Hills, Wood Mountain, and adjacent 

country.

Annual Eeport of the Geol. Survey of Canada, vol. 1, n. s. C, p. 7G and two maps. 

Issued separately in 1885.

McDOUGALL. Shells in sand at Selkirk.

Canadian Inst. Proc. vol. 21, p. 270.

Refers to their relation to the glacial drift.,

McGEE (W J). Geography and topography of the head of Chesapeake Bay. 

[Read to American Association, 1886.] 

Brief abstract in Am. Jour. Sci. IH, vol. 32, 

p. 323.

Describes the drainage and topographic 

features.

 Map of the United States, exhibiting 

the present status of knowledge relating to the areal distribution of geologic 

groups. (Preliminary compilation.)

Fifth Annual Eeport of the TJ. S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-'84.

In pocket. Explanation, pp. 34-37. ilap also 

published with legend in French.

The areas left uncolored are California, Oregon, the greater part of New Mexico, Washing-

(365)

McGEE (W.T) Continued.

ton Territory, Idaho, and Nevada, and a part 

of Arizona, Montana, and Texas.

 [Notes on the geology of Washington 

and vicinity.]

Eeport of the Health Officer of the District of 

Columbia for 1884-'85, pp. 19-21, 23, 24, 25.

Describes the composition and distribution 

of the Columbia and the underlying Potomac 

formations and some features of the crystalline 

rocks.

Maine, geology of CobscookBay, SHALER. 

wind action, STONE.

MARCOU (Jules). On two plates' of 

stratigraphical sections of the Taconic 

ranges, by James Hall.

Science, vol. 7, pp. 393-394. 

Calls attention to the extensive distribution 

of the sections referred to.

MARSH (O. C.). The gigantic mammals 

of the order Dinocerata.

Fifth Annual Eeport of the TL S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 243-302.

Describes the Eocene deposits of Wyoming 

in -which the remains are found and gives a 

brief review of the Tertiary geology of the 

West. 

MARTIN (D. S.). [Remarks on the 

tide water gneisses. ]

N. T. Acad. Sci. Trans. vol. 5, pp. 19-20.

Calls attention to tbe lithologic differences 

between the gneisses of the highlands of New 

Jersey and New York and those of Manhattan 

Island, Philadelphia, &c.
24 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. [BULL. 44.

Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, head of, 

McGEE.

gahbros &c. near Baltimore, WILLIAMS. '

iron mines, BENTON.

Massachusetts, cutting of gorges through 

trap ridges, EMERSON.

Holyoke trap, EMERSON.

iron mines, PUTNAM.

metamorphism of crystalline rocks, 

EMERSON.

Trias, DA vis.

Upper Silurian, DALE, EMERSON.

MATTHEW (G. F.). [Sketch of geology, of Frye's Island.]

New Brunswick Nat. Hist. Soc. Ball. No. 5, 

p. 38.

States that he had recognized the same succession of Silurian strata as is found on the 

Mascarene shore of Pasaamaquoddy Bay and 

that the belt of red conglomerate extending 

from Black's Harbor toward Eastport is Devonian.

MERRILL (F.J.H.). Geology of Long 

Island.

N. T. Acad. Sci. Annals, vol. 3, pp. 341-304 

and map

Describes topography and the relation and 

structure of the glacial and preglacial clays, 

sands, &c. Discusses the age and mode of 

deposition of the beds, condition of Long Island 

Sound during the glacial period, and subsidence 

of the coast line. The paper is accompanied 

by a map of the island and plate of sections.

 [Observations on the recent ibrrnations of the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey.]

Annual Report of the State Geologist [of N. 

J.] for 1885, pp. 61-95.

Describes salt'marshes, 'beaches, terraces, 

and alluvial deposits in general; discusses the 

subsidence of the coast, the formation of 

marshes, and change of form of the beaches 

due to tide and wind action.

 On some dynamic effects of the ice 

sheet.

[Read to American Association, 1886.] 

Brief abstract in Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, p. 

324, and in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, 

pp. 228-229.

Describes distortion of Cretaceous and Tertiary beds on Long Island, N. Y., and Southern 

New England. Calls attention to anticlinal deformation as the partial cause of the height of 

some morainal ridges and as accounting for 

position of certain post-Pliocene beds.

'MERRILL (George P.). Notes on the 

composition of certain "Pliocene sandstones" from Montana and Idaho.

(366)

MERRILL (G. P.) Continued.

Am. Jour. Sci. ni, vol. 32, pp. 199-204.

Finds them to be composed in greater part 

of fragmental volcanic products. Describes 

other similar rocks from Kansas and Colorado.

MERRITT (W.H.). The Cascade anthracite coal fields of the Rocky Mountains, Canada.

Geol. Soc. Quart. Jour. vol. 42, pp. 560-564.

Describes and figures stratigraphy, structure, 

and relation to associated formations of Cretaceous coal beds of Bow River Valley.

Mexico, fossil man, BARCENA. 

coal deposits, COPE. 

mining in Oaxaca, HOOKER.

METER (Otto). Observations on the 

Tertiary and Grand Gulf [groups] of 

Mississippi.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 20-25.

Describes an unsuccessful attempt to find 

Grand Gulf and Tertiary beds in contact. Describes the relation of the greensands south 

of Enterprise and the relations near Jackson. 

Concludes that the Grand Gulf group is older 

than the marine Tertiary, was dry land when 

the latter was deposited, and was not a marine 

deposit. Calls attention to an extensive marine 

greensand in Eastern Mississippi at a horizon 

immediately below the Claiborne.

Michigan, Archean, IRVING. 

iron mines, PUTNAM.

Minnesota, Archeau, IRVING.

deep wells, WINCHELL;

geologic survey report, WINCHELL.

iron ore districts, WILLIS.

Lower Silurian, ULRICH.

revision of Cambrian, WiNCHELL. 

Mississippi, Tertiary, ALDRICH, LANG-

- DON, HlLGARD, MEYER.

Missouri, iron mines, CHAUVENET. 

Mistassini expedition, Low.

MONRO (Alex.). On the physical features and geology of Chignecto Isthmus.

New Brunswick Nat. Hist. Soc. BnlletinNo. 5, 

pp. 20-24.

Describes some topographic feature and superficial formations; calls attention to subsidence of the land.

Montana, Cretaceous and Laramie, HAYDEN.

Pliocene sands, MERRILL, PEALE. 

coals and geology, DA vis. 

coals, ELDRIDGE. 

eruptive rocks, LINDGREN.
DARTON.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. 25

N.

Nebraska, Dakota group, HICKS. 

drift, CHAMBERLIN. 

Lincoln salt basiu, HICKS. 

Permian in, HICKS. 

Quaternary volcanic sand, TODD. 

well sections, HICKS.

Nevada, argentiferous lead mines, Six. 

Lake Lahontan, RUSSELL. 

Waslioe rocks, BECKER.

NEWBERRY (John S.). Earthquakes.

Columbia Coll. School of Mines Quarterly, 

vol. 8, pp. 1-19.

Incidentally discusses earthquakes and volcanoes aa measures of thickness of the earth's 

crust.

 North America in the ice period.

Popular Science Monthly, vol. 30, pp. 1-10 

and pi.

Describes in general the glacial features of 

North America and discusses the iceberg 

theory and glacial climate.

 Notes 011 the geology and botany of 

the country bordering on the Northern 

Pacific Railroad.

N. T. Acad. Sci. Annals, vol. 3, pp. 242-270.

Besides mentioning many geologic features 

along the railroad, describes drift of Yellowstone Park and the Upper Missouri, tho geology of the Belt Mountain district, tho present 

and former glaciers of the Cascade "Range, and 

the geology of the Puget Sound basin.

 On the American Trias.

N. T. Acad. Sci. Trans. vol. 5, pp. 18-19.

Discusses the equivalency of American and 

European, beds. States his opinion of the 

probable Archean age of the crystalline rocks 

forming the eastern border of the Trias in New 

Jersey and Pennsylvania.

 [Review of Hull on the "Geological 

age of the Atlantic Ocean."]

N. Y. Acad. Sci. Trans. vol. 5, pp. 78-79.

Opposes the statements in regard to the derivation of the materials of the American Paleozoic.

 The Cretaceous flora of North 

America.

N. Y. Acad. Sci. Trans. vol. 5, pp. 133-137.

Gives a table showing relative positions of 

the plant bearing members of the Cretaceous 

of North America and Europe.

New Brunswick, Cambrian, BAILEY.

 Chignecto Isthmus, MONRO. 

Frye's Island, MATTHEW.

New Brunswick Continued, 

geologic studies, BAILEY. 

geology of part of, ELLS. 

surface geology, CHALMERS.

New England iron mines, PUTNAM, BENTON.

Upper Silurian, DALE. 

See, also, Massachusetts.

New Hampshire, Upper Silurian, DALE.

New Jersey, Archean, BRITTON.

coast formations, COOK, MERRILL. 

Cretaceous fauna, WHITFIELD. 

Cretaceous and Tertiary, COOK, BRITTON.

fish remains, GRATACAP. 

geologic report for 1885, COOK. 

iron mines, PUTNAM. 

Orange trap columns, IDDINGS. 

Upper Silurian, DARTON.

New York, fire sand of Clinton County,

BRAINEKD. 

fossiliferous limestone of Columbia

County, BISHOP. 

fossils at Canaan, DANA, DWIGHT,

FORD. 

geologic succession in Ontario County,

CLARKE.

geologic wrinkles, GILBERT. 

iron mines, PUTNAM. 

Long Island, geology, MERRILL. 

Lower Helderberg, Cayuga County,

WILLIAMS. 

Lower Helderberg, Cornwall Station,

DARTON. 

Niagara Falls recession, WOODWARD,

GILBERT. 

Niagara River, gorge and falls,

HOVEY, CLAYPOLE, POHLMAN. 

Onoudaga salt group at Buffalo,

POHLMAN.

Orange County, geology, DARTON. 

peridotites near Peekskill, WILLIAMS. 

place of Niagara Falls in geologic

history, GILBERT.

Potsdam near Poughkeepsie,DwiGHT. 

Quaternary deformation, GILBERT,

MERRILL.

revision of Devonian section at Cayuga Lake, WILLIAMS. 

salt mine, WEIGHT,

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26 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 188G. [BULL. 44.

New York Continued.

schistose rocks of Adirondacks, BRITTON, JULIEN.

Staten Island, geology, BRITTON. 

structure of clay near Newburgh,

DWIGHT.

Tilly Foster Mine, geology, RUTTMAN. 

Trenton fossils of Orange County,

BARTON.

Tally limestone, WILLIAMS. 

Washington County, Cambrian age of

slates at Granville, WALCOTT. 

westward extension of the Lower

Helderberg, WILLIAMS.

Niagara Falls. See New York.

North America, age of Olenellus zones, 

BROGGER.

North Carolina, iron mines, WILLIS.

Northern Pacific Railroad, geology

along, NEWBERRY. 

Nova Scotia, Cornwallis or McNab

Island, HONEYMAN. 

geologic formations, ELLS. 

geology of Capo Breton Island, GILPIN.

gold mines, GILPIN. 

Sydney coal field, ROUTLEDGE.

0.

Ohio, geology of Cincinnati, JAMES. 

Clinton group, FOERSTE. 

coal field, ORTON. 

coals, characteristics of, ORTON. 

deep well, ORTON. 

iron mines, WILLIS. 

oil and gas, ORTON. 

Orton's oil and gas report, LESLEY.

Oil and gas, of Ohio, ORTON. 

Orton's report on, LESLEY. 

borings in Pennsylvania, ASHBURNER. 

Pennsylvania, CARLL, HOUTHUMB. 

pressure, quantity, &c. of Pennsylvania, LESLEY. 

Wyoming, AUGHEY.

Orange sands. See Quaternary.

ORTON (Edward). Address to the section of geology and geography.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 173-197.

Discusses recent progress of some branches 

of American geology. Reviews the literature 

on the formation of coal. Describes the Ohio 

coal field and discusses the origin of the beds 

of coal and associated rocks, applying the conclusions to other areas.

 Characteristics of Ohio coals.

Tenth Census : Keport on the Mining Indus 

tries of the United States, pp. 619-622.

 Geological survey of Ohio: Preliminary report upon petroleum and inORTON (E.) Continued, 

flammable gas, pp. 76, 8°, 2 maps, Columbus, 1886.

Discusses the mode of occurrence and origin 

of oil and gas; gives a general account of the 

geology of Ohio and a map; describes the oil 

.fields and the occurrence of oil and gas in the 

Trenton, in the Berea grit, in the Ohio shales, 

and in the other formations.

 Petroleum and natural gas in Ohio.

Science, vol. 7, pp. 560-564 and map.

Describes some geologic features of the district and the rocks passed through in drilling. 

The paper is accompanied by a geologic map 

of Ohio.

 The recently discovered sources of 

natural gas and petroleum in Northwestern Ohio.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proe. vol. 34, pp. 202-204.

Describes the geology of the district and the 

age of the beds passed through in drilling. 

Calls attention to the relation of the new oil 

district to the Cincinnati uplift.

 The record of the deep well of the 

Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 220- 

222.

Gives the record of a well begun in Bedford 

shales and extending down into the Trenton 

Limestone. Discusses the identity of intermediate beds.
DARTON.J BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. 27

P.

PACKARD (A. S.)- Geological extinction and some of its apparent causes.

Ani. Nat vol. 20, pp. 29-40.

PANTON (J.Hoges). Notes on the 

geology of some islan els in Lake Winnipeg.

Hist, and Sci. Soc. of Manitoba Trans. No. 

20, pp. 10.

Describes the crystalline rocks, the Silurian 

formations and fauna, the drift, and evidences 

of glaciation.

Paraguay, stones from, POHLMANN.

PEALE (A. C.). Lacustrine deposits of 

Montana.

Science, vol. 8, pp. 1C3-1C4.

Describes the general features of the deposits and calls attention to Men-ill's discovery 

that they are in part composed of volcanic 

dust.

Pennsylvania, anthracite coal region,

ASHBURNER.

Archbald pot-holes, ASHBURNER. 

Bradford County, Chemung section,

LILLEY.

. Chester and Delaware kaolin, LESLEY. 

Cornwall iron mines, LESLEY, D'lNVILLIERS, WlLLIS. 

gas, ASHBURNER, CARLL. CHANCE,

WHITE.

glaciation, BRANNER. 

ice of Northeastern, BRANNER. 

iron ores, PUTNAM. 

kaolin of Brandywine Summit, ASHBTJRNER.

magnetites of Eastern, WILLIS. 

Montgomery County, geology, CARTER.

oil borings, ASHBURNER. 

oil region, HOUTHUMB, CARLL. 

Oriskany in Lycoming County,

WOOLMAN.

Pittsburgh coal, LESLEY, D'lNViLL1ERS.

pressure fluxion, LEWIS.

pressure, quantity, &c. of gas, LESLEY.

railroad cut at Gray's Ferry road, 

SMITH.

report on oil, CARLL.

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Pennsylvania Continued.

report of State geologist, 1885, LES*

LEY.

Tipton Run coal, ASHBURNER.

Washington County, mountain limestone, LINN.

Wellersbnrg, fire clay, LESLEY, HARDEN.

Wyoming Buried Valley, HILL, ASHBURNER.

Wyoming Valley limestone, ASHBURNER.

York County, geology, FRAZER.

Penokee-Gogebic series, VAN HISE. 

Permian, in Nebraska, HICKS.

Petrography, Archoau of Northwest, 

IRVING.

Delaware gabbros &c., CHESTER.

gabbros &c. near Baltimore, WILLIAMS.

Holyoke, Mass., trap, EMERSON.

Montana eruptives, LINDGREN.

Penokee-Gogebic rocks, VAN HISE.

peridotites near Peekskill, N. Y., 

WILLIAMS.

rocks of Andes, KUCII, POHLMANN.

rhyolite, CROSS.

POHLMAN (Julias). The thickness of 

the Ouondaga salt group at Buffalo.

Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. Bull. vol. 5, pp. 97-98.

Determined from a well boring l,3C5feetin 

depth, which passed through gypsiferous beds 

down to 725 feet, then through soft, red shales 

holding a bed of sandstone near their top.

 The Niagara gorge.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, pp. 221-222.

Discusses details of the ancient drainage of 

the Niagara Palls district and the origin and 

work of the Niagara Eiver.

POHLMANN (Robert). Gesteiuo aus 

Paraguay.

Neues Jahrbuch, Band I, pp. 244-248,188G.

Describes muscovite-gueiss, biotite-gneiss, 

muscovite-mica-schist, quartzito, sandstone, 

oolite-limestones, olivine-kersantite, and nepheline-basalt.

PORTER (John B.). The iron ores and 

coals of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
28 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. [BULL. 44.

PORTER (J. B.) Continued.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. p. 49and map. 

Describes occurrence of iron ores and coals 

and the structure and geology of tbe region.

POWELL (J. W.). The cause of earthquakes.

The Forum, vol. 2, pp. 370-391.

Gives instances of formation of sedimentary 

deposits. Explains faults and flexures. Discusses changes of shore lines, internal heat of 

the earth, crustal stresses, earthquakes known 

to have been produced by faulting, relation of 

volcanic activity to earthquakes, relation of 

geology to seismology, vertical range of earthquakes, and the condition of the interior of the 

earth and of its crust.

PRESTWICH (Joseph). Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphical. Vol. 

1, Chemical and physical, 24+477 pp. 

8°, Oxford, 1886.

Thinks that the Canon of the Colorado may 

be due to a fissure widened by erosion. Quote3 

descriptions of various instances of geologic 

phenomena in the United States, especially in 

the West.

PRIME (Frederick, jr. ). The coals of the 

United States.

Tenth Census : Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 605-617.

Brief general description of the location and 

character of the coal districts.

PUMPELLY (Raphael). Bituminous 

coals and lignites of the "Northwest.

Tenth Census; Report oil the Mining Industries of the "United States, pp. 690-695 and map. 

General description and notice of deposits.

 Geographical and geological distribution of the iron ores of the United

States.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 3-36 and plates.

PUMPELLY (R.) Continued.

General geologic description of the various 

ore regions and some features of their structure.

PUTNAM (Bayard T.). Notes on the 

samples of iron'ore collected in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 83-87.

Describes some features of the formations in 

which the ore occurs.

 Notes on the samples of iron ore collected in Michigan and Northern Wisconsin.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 421-455.

General description of the geology of the ore 

districts.

 Notes on samples of iron ore collected 

in New Jersey.

Tenth Census: Report on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 145-177.

Describes some features of the formations 

in which the ores occur.

 Notes on the samples of iron ore collected in New York.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 89-144.

Description of the geologic relations and 

structural features of the mines.

 Notes on the iron oresvof Pennsylvania.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 179-221..-

Occasional notice of geologic features of 

formations in which the ores occur.

 Notes on the samples of iron ore collected west of the one hundredth meridian.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 469-505.

Description of the ore beds and the associated formations in Colorado, "Wyoming, Utah, 

California, and Oregon.

Q.

Quaternary, Alaska, ALLEN.

along Northern Pacific Railroad,

NEWBERRY.

Archbald pot-holes, Pa., ASHBURNER. 

British Columbia, LAMPLUGH. 

Buried Valley of Newport Creek, Pa.,

ASHBURNER, HILL.

Quaternary Continued.

clay structure near Newburgh,

DWIGHT.

Cornwallis Island, Halifax, HONEYMAN.

drift, COOPER, SALISBURY. 

drift inventory, CHAMBERLIN.

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DARTON.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOE 1886. 29

Quaternary Continued.

drift of Lower St. Lawrence, DAWSON.

dynamic effects of ice sheet, MERRILL.

elevation of Sierra Nevada, LE

CONTE.

Florida, Avest coast, HEILPKIN.

glacial action, shore of Lake Superior, CROSIER.

glaciation of America arid Europe, 

LEWIS.

glaciation of Wyoming and Lackawanna Valley, Pa., BRANNER.

Gray's Ferry road, near Philadelphia, 

Pa., SMITH.

Great Basin, GILBERT.

ice of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 

BRANNER.

Quaternary Continued.

Illinois, WORTHEN.

Lake Bouneville, GILBERT.

Lake Lahontau, RUSSELL.

Long Island, New York, MERRILL.

movement of glaciers in Iowa, IRISH.

New Jersey coast, COOK, MERRILL.

Niagara Falls, CLAYPOLE, HOVEY, 

GILBERT, POHLMAN, WOODWARD.

North America in ice period, NEWBERRY.

Northwest prairies, DRUMMOND.

on islands of Lake Winnipeg, PANTON.

Eocky Mountain drift, COMSTOCK.

Selkirk, Canada, MCDOUGALL.

Staten Island, N. Y., BRITTON.

volcanic deposits of Nebraska, Tor>p,

R.

RATH (G. vom). Berichte iiber die 

Umgebungen von San Francisco, Santa 

Cruz und Neu Almaden, Californieu.

Vortrage und Mittheilungen, 1886. 

Not seen.

 Geologische Wahrnehmungenin Californien langs der Ceutral-Pacific-Eisenbahn nnd in dem Goldgebiete von Dutch. 

Flat, Placer Co.

Vortrage und Mittheilungen, 1880. 

Not seen.

 Wahrnehinungen auf einer Eeise 

durch einen Theil des siidlichen Californiens sowie in den angrenzendeu. 

Gebirgen Arizonas. 

Vortrage und Mittheilungen, 1886. 

Not seen.

 Wahmehmungen in der Umgebung 

von Silver Cliff, Salida, Leadville und 

Gunnison, Colorado.

Vortrage und Mittheilungen, 1886. 

Not seen.

READE (T. Mellard). The origin of 

mountain ranges, considered experimentally, structurally, dynamically, 

and in relation to geological history, 

pp. 359, pi. 42, 8°, London, 1886.

REYER (E.). Zwei Profile durch die 

Sierra Nevada.

Neues Jahrbuch, Boil.-Band IV. Heft2,pp. 

291-326 and map.

(1) Mariposa to Mono; (2) Nevada Ci'ty to 

Keno.

Describes the geologic features along those 

belts and discusses the stratigraphy and structural relations and volcanism. The paper ia 

accompanied by a geologic map of the belts 

and numerous illustrations of structure.

RICE (William North). On the Trap and 

sandstone in the gorge of the river at 

. Tariffville, Conn.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 43(M33, 

Describes the relation of the two sheets of 

trap exposed in section at point. '

RICHARDS (Ellen H.). First lessons in 

minerals, pp. 46-120, 12°, Boston, 1886. 

[Guides for Science Teaching.]

ROUTLED^E (W.). The Sydney coal 

field, Cape Breton, N. S.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. vol. 14, pp. 542- 

560. 

Describes some of its geologic features.

RUSSELL (Israel C.). Existing glaciers of the United States.

Fifth Annual Keport of the U. S. Geological 

Survey, 1883-'84, pp. 303-356,14 pis.

Discusses .the nature of a glacier and glacial action. Describes glaciers of the Sierra

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30 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. | BULL. 44.

RUSSELL (I. C.) Continued.

Nevada and evidences of their former occurrence and extent. Quotes descriptions of glaciers of Northern California and the Cascade 

Mountains, permanent ice on mountains in tho 

Great Basin, glaciers in tho Rocky Mountains 

and in Alaska. The paper-is illustrated with 

numerous cuts taken from photographs and 

with several maps.

 Geological history of Lake Lalion tan, 

a Quaternary lake of Northwestern Nevada. U. S. Geol. Surv. Monograph, 

No. 11, pp. 288, pis. 45, map, Washington, 1885.

After a preliminary description of tho Great 

Basin and its exploration and a discussion of 

lacustral basins in general, the physiography

RUSSELL (I. C.) Continued.

of the Lahontan basin is described in detail, 

shore' phenomena in general are discussed, and 

the shore phenomena, sediments, &c. of Lake 

Lahontan described. The chemistry of natural 

waters precedes a description of the chemic 

deposits of Lake Lahontan and a discussion of 

their formation, relations, fauna, and geologic 

age. In conclusion Quaternary climate is discussed and recent faults are described. The 

paper is illustrated by many plates from photographs and by maps and figures in the text and 

a folded map in a pocket.

RUTTMAN (Ferd. S.). Notes on the geology of the Tilly Foster mine.

Am. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans. 

Describes and figures the ore body and fault 

. and discusses origin of ore.

S.

SALISBURY (R. D.). Notes on.the dispersion of drift copper.

"Wisconsin Acad. Sci. &c. Trans. vol. C, pp. 

42-50 and pi.

Accompanied by a map showing areas in 

which drift copper has been found.

SELWYN (Alfred R. C.). Geological 

and natural history survey of Canada, 

annual report, n. s., vol. 1, 1885, 8°, 

pp. 733, and maps, Montreal, 1886.

Administrative report and papers by G. "W. 

Dawson, McConnell, Lawson, Low, Bell, Ells, 

L. W. Bailey, and Chalmers, on geology; Cope, 

on paleontology; Coste, on mining laws.; and 

Hoffmann, on chomic analyses.

SHALER (N. S.). Preliminary report 

on the geology of the Cobscook Bay district, Maine.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, pp. 35-60. 

1 Describes the topography of the shore line 

of New England and discusses its relation to 

glaciation. Describes Silurian rocks with ash 

beds, lava flows and dikes, and the stratigraphy, structure, and paleontology of the district.

SHUMARD (Geo. G.). A partial report 

on the geology of Western Texas, pp. 

145, 8°, Austin, 1886.

Part first: Description of the 'formations 

from the loess to the Lower Silurian between 

lat. 29° and 35° and long. 94° and 108°. Part second : Journal of observations between Indiaiiola, Tex. and the valley of the Mimbres, N. 

Mex. Illustrated by sections. Appendix on 

the geology of Grayson County. 

Reviewed by Hill in Am. Jour. Sci. Jan. 1880.

Sierra Nevada, post-Tertiary elevation,

LE CONTE. 

profiles through, REYER.

Silurian, Lower, Columbia County, N. Y. ? 

BISHOP. 

fire sand, Clinton County, N. Y.,

BRAINERD.

fossils, Canaan, N. Y., DANA, FORD. 

fossils, Orange County, N. Y., DARTON. 

fossils in Potsdam, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,DWIGHT. 

fossils, Minnesota, ULRICH. 

Lower Helderberg of Cayuga County,

N. Y., WILLIAMS.

Lower Helderberg of Cornwall Station, N. Y., DARTON. 

on border of New Jersey and New

York Trias, BRITTON. 

shore of Lake Champlain, WHITFIELD.

Silurian, Upper, Clinton of Ohio, 

FOERSTE.

Cornwall Station, N. Y., DARTON.

Lower Helderberg in New York, WILLIAMS.

of New England, DALE.

Ouondaga salt group at Buffalo, 

POHLMAN. '

SIX (A.). Les mines de plomb argentifere du district d'Eureka, Etats-Unis 

d'Am6rique.

Lille, Soc. g6ol. du nord, annales, tome 13, pp. 

14-45. 

Not seen.

SMITH (Aubrey H.). The railway cutting at Gray's Ferry road.

Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc. vol. 16, pp. 253-254,

Describes exposures of clays and gravels.

the former containing wood and diatoms.

Gives a section in artesian well at Black's,

Island, Delaware River.

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SMITH (Eugene A.). Geological survey of Alabama, Bulletiu No. 1, pp. 85, 

pi. 9, 8°, 1886.

In introduction to paleontologic papers by 

Aldrich and Meyer; gives n " Summary of lithological and stratigraphical features and subdivisions of tho Tertiary of Alabama," pp. 

7-14.

South America, Bolivia gold deposits,

CORNING.

Paraguay rocks, POHLMANN. 

petrography of Andes, KUCH. 

SPENCER (J. W.). Remarkable laudslide near Brantford, Ontario.

Hamilton Ass. Jour, and Proc. vol. 1, part 2, 

pp. 55-57.

Describes tho Erie clay of the district and 

discusses the cause of the slide and some 

ancient drainage features of the containing

valley.

Staten Island. See New York.

STEVENS (R. P.). On the Sau Jnan 

Mountains of Colorado

N. Y. Acad. Sci. Trans. vol. 5, pp. 121-130.

Describes many features of geology and 

mineralogy of tho district. Gives sections 

and descriptions of the eruptive rocks and 

their relation to the Cretaceous, Carboniferous, 

&c.

STONE (George H.). Wind action in 

Maine.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 133-138.

Refers to the prevalence of drifting sands in 

the western part of Maine. Describes the 

polished bowlders of Bethel and elsewhere, 

and, after discussing causes of natural rock 

polishing, concludes that they have been polished by sand blown against them by wind.

T.

Taconic, controversy, DARTON, WINCHELL. 

fossils from, at Canaan, N. Y., DANA,

FORD.

history of study, DANA, HUNT. 

sections by Hall, MARCOU. 

stratigraphy and fossils, DANA.

Tahiti, DANA.

TAYLOR (William B.). A probable 

cause of the shrinkage of tho earth's 

crust.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 200- 

202. 

. Also in full in Am. Jour. Sci. ITJ, vol. 30.

Tennessee, geology east of Bristol, BOYD. 

iron mines of Eastern, WILLIS. 

iron and coal, PORTER. 

iron mines, CHAUVENET. 

lithographic stone from, HOWE.

Tertiary, Alabama and Mississippi, ALDRICH, LANGDON, MEYER, SMITH.

fossils, Anticosti, GRANT.

Kentucky, Texas, and Florida, HEILPRIN.

Montana, HAYDEN.

New Jersey, COOK.

Pliocene Sands, Montana and Idaho, 

MERRILL, PEALE.

Tertiary Continued. 

Southwest, HILGARD. 

west coast Florida, HEILPRIN. 

Wyoming, MARSH.

Texas, Cretaceous, HEILPRIN. 

geology of Western, SHUMARD. 

Travis County, Cretaceous, HILL.

Tide-water gneisses, MARTIN, BRITTON, 

NEWBERRY.

TODD (J. E.). Quaternary volcanic deposits in Nebraska.

Science, vol. 7, p. 373.

Describes deposits of volcanic dust from 

Knox and Soward Counties. Discusses their 

horizon and relation to silicious deposits, to the 

glacial ice sheet, and to the White Elver Tertiary sands.

Trias, American, NEWBERRY.

columnar trap of Orange, N. J., IDDINGS.

Cornwall iron mines, Pennsylvania, 

D'INVILLIERS, LESLEY, WILLIS.

fish remains, New Jersey, GRATACAP.

Holyoke, Mas*., trap, EMERSON.

New Jersey, BRITTON.

Rocky Mountains, DAWSON.

structure of Connecticut Valley, DAVIS.

trap and sandstone at Tariffville, 

Conn., RICE.

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32 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOR 1886. /' [BULL. 44.

u.

ULRICH (E. 0.). Report on the Lower 

Silurian bryozoa, with preliminary 

description of some of the new species.

Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn. 14th 

annual report, for 1885, pp. 55-103.

ULRICH (E. 0.)-Continued.

In introductory remarks discusses equivalency of the beds just above the Saint Peter 

sandstone in Minnesota and southward.

Upper Silurian. See Silurian, Upper.

Utah, deformation of Lake Bonueville, 

GILBERT.

V.

VANDIBST (P. H.). Notes on a trip 

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Colorado Soi. Soc. Proc. vol. 2, pp. 28-30. 

Describes geologic features of the volcanic 

and sedimentary rocks.

VAN HISE (C. R.). Upon the origin of 

the mica-schists and black mica slates 

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series.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp, 453-409.

Describes the stratigraphy and lithology of 

the rocks in question and discusses their metasomatic derivation from fragmental materials,

Vermilion Lake, iron ore districts near, 

WILLIS.

Vermont, geologic studies on shore of 

Lake Champlain, WHITFIELD.

Virginia, Rogers's Geology of, CAMPBELL. 

geology of southwest part, BOYD. 

iron mines, BENTON, CHAUVENET.

VOGDES (Anthony W.). Notes on the 

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Va., 1886.' 

Occasional reference to geologic features.

W.

WALCOTT (Charles D.). Cambrian age 

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Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc.vol. 35, pp. 220-221.

Statement of fossils found and the general 

stratigraphic and structural relations of the 

district.

* Classification of the Cambrian system 

of North America.

Am. Jour. Sci. HI, vol. 32, pp. 138-157.

i- Calls attention to the deflniteness of the 

American Cambrian and gives a provisional 

key to its subdivisions. Describes the Cambrian of the "Wasatch Mountains, "Utah ; the 

Eureka district, Nevadft; Grand Gallon of the 

Colorado; Llano County, Texasj Keweenaw 

Point, and localities in New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Gives sections, discusses the fauna of tho various groups and their 

stratigraphic positions. Discusses area of dep-

, osition of the Cambrian and gives a hypothetic 

map showing the supposed. Keweenaw Land 

just before the deposition of tho Upper Cambrian (Potsdam).

WALCOTT (C. D.) Continued. 

 Second contribution to the studies on 

the Cambrian faunas of North America.

U. S. Geol. Survey Bulletin No. 30, vol. 

4, pp. 369, including 33 pis. 8°, Washington, 1886.

Discusses the terms Cambrian and Taconio 

and reviews previous investigations. Gives or 

quotes descriptions of the areas in "Western 

Vermont; Troy, N. Y.; tho St.Lawrence Valley, Newfoundland, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and 

elsewhere. Discusses the stratigraphic relations of tho various beds and correlation of the 

sections. Gives table of and discnssos the 

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Bull. 44-

WARRING(C. B.). Geologic climate 

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Popular Science Monthly, vol. 29, pp. 352-367.

Washington, D. C., geology of, McGEE. 

Washington Territory, coals, WILLIS. 

Washoe rocks, BECKEK. 

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WENDT (Arthur F.). The pyrites deposits of the Alleghanies.

Columbia Coll. School of Mines Quarterly, 

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Also in Eng. and Mining Journal, vols. 41-42.

WHEELER (GeorgeM.). Report upon 

the third International Geographical 

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'Describes geographic and geologic surveys 

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WHEELER (H. A.). Temperature observations of the Lake Superior copper 

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U [Eead to the St. Louis Academy of Science.]

1' Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, p. 125.

; Incidentally gives a brief description of the 

geology of the district.

WHITE (I. C.). The criticisms of the

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; The Petroleum Age, vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 1464- 

; 1465, Nov. 1880.

<$A In defense of the theory. ' >r

 The geologp of natural gas.

The Petroleum Age, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1263- 

1267 and map, March, 1886.

Describes anticlinal axes of "Western Pennsylvania and discusses their relation to the 

occurrence of natural, gas.

WHITFIELD (R. P.). Notice of the 

geological investigations along the 

eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by H. M. Seely and Ezra Brainerd, with description of the new fossils 

discovered.

Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, Bulletin, vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 

293-345 and pis. 24-34.

Preceded by a description of the geology of 

the vicinity of Fort Cassin, Vt. Describes 

Lower Silurian limestones and theirfauna; calls 

attention to a fault and dike, and gives a map 

showing the areal geologic relations of the district.

 The molluskan fauna of the New Jersey marls.

[Read to American Association Adv. Sci., 

1886.]

Brief abstract in Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, 

pp. 320-321.

Discusses equivalency of the Cretaceous beds 

 with those of the Upper Missouri section and 

of tne Eocene beds "with those of Claiborne.

WILLIAMS (E. E. J.). A manual of 

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Bull. 44 3 (375)

WILLIAMS (George H.). The gabbros 

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Md.

U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 28, vol. 

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Describes the occurrence of the rocks and 

gives a map showing outcrops. Describes and 

figures their'petrography and discusses the 

derivation of the gabbro-diorite from the bypersthene-gabbro.

 The peridotites of the "Cortlandt 

series " on the Hudson River near Peekskill, N. Y.

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 26-41. 

Describes the petrography and distribution 

of the rocks of Stony and Montrose Points.

WILLIAMS (Henry S.). A revision of 

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of the Devonian.

[Eead to American Association, 1886 ] 

Brief abstract in Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, p. 

321.

Discusses the fauna of the Hamilton and its 

relation to that of the Coralline beds, the Moscow shales, the Tully limestone, and the Genesee.

 On the classification of the Upper 

Devonian.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 222-234.

Discusses the faunal relations of the beds 

along the lines of ten sections in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, giving a table of 

columnar sections in illustration of his observations on the stratigraphic relations of the 

faunas. Calls attention to the relation of fauna 

to rock texture.

WILLIAMS (S. G.). Note on the Lower 

Helderberg rocks of Cayuga County, 

New York.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 35, pp. 214-215. 

Statement in regard to fauna of strata overlying the plaster beds of Cayuga Lake.

 The Tully limestone, its distribution, 

its irregularities, its character, and its 

life.

Abstract in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 

35, pp. 213-214, and Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, p. 

320.

Also describes some structural features.

 The westward extension of rocks of 

the Lower Helderberg age in New York. 

Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 31, pp. 139-145. 

Abstract in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 

34, pp. 235-236.
34 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOLOGY FOE 1886. [BULL. 44.

WILLIAMS (S. G.) Continued.

Describes a mixed Tentaculite and Lower 

Pentamerus fauna in the gypsiferous limestones of Caynga County. Gives a representation of the formation by the Tentaculite limestone at the outlet of the Skaneateles Lake, and 

at Oriskany Falls near TJtica, by the Tentaculite overlaid by a mixed Lower Pentamerus and 

Delthyris shale. Calls attention to the in- 

' creasing indistinctness of the divisions and the 

' predominance of the lower .portion of the formation westward. Discusses the relations of 

deposition to that of the Salina beds.

WILLIAMS (SamuelJ.). Applied geology, PP- 386, 12°, New York, 1886. 

Not seen.

WILLIS (Bailey). Notes on samples of 

iron ore collected in North Carolina.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 301-329.

Description of the geologic features of some 

mines.

 Notes on the samples of iron ore collected in Ohio.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 235-243.

Description of some features of the ore bearing strata.

 . Notes on the samples of iron ore collected in East Tennessee.

Tenth Census: Keport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 331-350.

Notice of the geologic features at some of the 

mines.

 Eeport of a trip on the Upper Mississippi and to Vermilion Lake, Minnesota (1880).

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 457-467.

Description of the geology of the iron bearing and associated strata and discussion of their 

stratigraphic and structural relations.

 Eeport on certain magnetites in 

Eastern Pennsylvania.

Tenth Census: Keport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 223-234.

Describes the Cornwall, Wheatfield, Boyertown, and other mines and 'discusses the geologic relations of the associated formations 

from field studies in 1SSO.

 Eeport on the coal fields of Washington Territory.

Tenth Census: Eeport on the Mining Industries of the United States, pp. 759-771.

Detailed description of the geologic and 

atratigraphic relations of the coal beds and asWILLIS (B.) Continued.

sociated formations. The paper is illustrated 

by numerous colored maps aud structural 

and columnar sections of the formations and 

sections and analyses of the coal beds.

WINCHELL (A.). Geologic studies or 

elements of geology, 26, 513 pp. 12° 

Chicago, 1886.

Text book embracing many illustrations of 

American geologic features.

 Sources of trend and crustal surplusage in mountain structure.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 209-212.

 Walks aud talks in the geological 

field, 8°, New York, 1886.

WINCHELL (N. H.). Notes on some 

deep wells in Minnesota.

Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn. fourteenth annual report, for 1885, pp. 11-16 and 

348-353.

Record of wells in Minneapolis, Saint Peter, 

Maukato, Herman, Brown Valley, Milbank, Eosenfeld Station, Sleepy Eye, Austin, Albert 

Lea, Morristown, Tracy, and Gibbon, in Minnesota and adjacent States, and discussion of 

the horizon of some of the beds passed through.

 Eevision of the stratigraphy of the 

Cambrian in Minnesota.

Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Hum. fourteenth annual report, for 1885, pp. 325-337.

Describes geologic studies in the valley of the 

Minnesota and discusses the position of the 

Saint Peter sandstone, Shakopee limestone, 

Saint Lawrence limestone, New Kichmond beds, 

magncsian limestone, Jordan sandstone, and

other associated beds.

 Geological and natural history stir-* 

vey of Minnesota, fourteenth annual 

report, for 1885, pp. 353, 2 pis. 8°, Saint 

Paul, 1886.

' Administrative report. Papers on geology, 

by Wiuchell, TJlrich, and F. L. "Washburn; on 

paleontology, by Ulrich and Winchell; on entomology, by 0. "W. Oestland; on conchology, 

by U. S. Grant; bibliography of foraminifera, 

by Woodward; a"nd on mineralogy, by Winchell.

 The Taconic controversy in a nutshell. 

, Science, vol. 7, p. 34.

A plea for the retention of the term "TaWind action, STONE.

Wisconsin, Archeau, IRVING, VANHISE. 

iron mines of Northern, PUTNAM. 

Peuokee-Gogebic series, VAN HISE.

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WOODWARD (Robert, S.). On 

rate of recession of Niagara Falls.

the

[Head to American Association, 1886.] 

Brief abstracts in Am. Jour. Sci. Ill, vol. 32, 

pp. 322-323, and in Science, vol. 8, p. 205.

Comparison of results of recent and former 

' surveys.

WOOLMAN (Lewis). Oriskauy sandstone in Lycoming County, Pa.

Phila. Acad. Nat. Hist. Proc. vol. 1C, pp. 297- 

298. 

Describes occurrence of a line of outcrop not 

shown on geologic maps.

WORTHEN (A. H.). The Quaternary 

deposits of Illinois.

Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc. vol. 34, pp. 214.

States contents of paper, which is to be published in vol. 13 of the Geological Survey of 

Illinois.

WRIGHT (G. F.). 

. ern New York.

A salt mine in WestScience, vol. 8, p. 52.

Describes salt bed and strata passed through 

in a 1,105-foot shaft.

Wyoming, eocene deposits of, MARSH. 

report on geology, AUGHEY.

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