The Story of the Rocks. Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology
The Story of the Rocks. Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology
Steele, Joel Dorman, 1836-1886. [from Old Catalog]
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1,000 feet in thickness, showing a long continuance of the pecaliar conditions under which they were formed. Fossils* — ^There are few organic remains. The salt water seems to have been unfiftYorable for the existence of animal life. '^i\^^\\.—21ie Salt Springs of Syracuse have been accounted for in the following manner: Central New York was at that time a great salt lake, shut off mainly from the sea. By continued evaporation, by fresh over- flows of the brine from the ocean, and by washings o...f rains and streams from the adjacent land, muddy deposits were formed, thoroughly impregnated with salt.* LOWER HELDERBERG PERIOD. LocaHo7i. — This period takes its name from the Helderbeig Mountains, near Albany, N. Y. The rocks gradually disappear in the western part of the State, but are conspicuous southward along the Appalachian range, and reappear in Maine. JTind of :RocJb.—Thi& is also a great limestone formation, but differs from the Trenton and Niagara groups in being thickest on the eastern border.
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