Geological Survey of New Jersey Annual Report of the State Geologist 1891 NO MAP

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Geological Survey of New Jersey Annual Report of the State Geologist 1891 NO MAP
 
Geological Survey of New Jersey Annual Report of the State Geologist 1891
Soft cover     NOTICE staining cover and first pages, back cover and last page, last page is loose.  NO map in pocket, cover is separating, red stamp on insde cover, first page, title page, fold out graphsome discoloartion around page edges, tape on binding edge.  
Copyright 1892
270 pages
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 1-32
GEODETIC SURVEY 33-34
DRIFT OR PLEISTOCENE FORMATIONS   35-108
Introductory    35-40
An Outline of the Pleistocene Formations of New Jersey 40-53
Summary of Development and Movements of the North American Ice-sheet 53-65
Classification of the Drift 65-86
Drift Deposits Made by Water   86-102
Extra-morainic Glacial Drift 102-108
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 109-256
Oakland and Pineland Belts of Southern New Jersey 111-140
Introductory    111-118
Descriptions of Belts 118-136
Tables of Areas of Forest and Cleared Land 137-140
Water-supply and Water-power 141-216
Rainfall for 1890 and 1891 141-143
Evaporation    144-147
Stream Gaugings 147-162
Undeveloped Water-powers of Southern New Jersey 163-167
Utilized Water-power 167-173
List of Water-powers    178-216
Artesian Wells    217-232
Passaic River Drainage    233-234
Iron Mines    235-253
Mineral Statistics   255-256
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SURVEY 257-262
INDEX    263-270
ILLUSTRATIONS.
MAP. State of New Jersey on scale of five miles to one inchIn pocket.
PLATE I. Stony till, northeast part of NewarkFacing page 35
PLATE Ia. Clayey till, central part of Newark Facing page 41
PLATE II. Till largely of local origin. Quarry north part of Newark   Facing page 70
PLATE III. Map of part of the moraine near Plainfield. Scale, one mile to one inch. Facing page 83
PLATE IV. Map of part of the moraine near Plainfield Scale, 900 feet to one inchFacing page 84
PLATE V. Diatoms from artesian well borings, Beach Haven. Photo-micrographed. Magnified 90 diametersFacing page 224
Fig. 1. Section of a snow-field 42
Fig. 2. Form of hill worn by ice   47
Fig. 3. Forms of glaciated stones    50
Fig. 4. Diagram illustrating the relation of rock, and the soil derived from it 56
Fig. 5. Form of hill shaped by rain and river erosion.  58
Fig. 6. Form of hill long acted upon by the ice..  58
Fig. 7. Diagram illustrating the movement of ice across a valley 59
Fig. 8. Diagram illustrating the movement of ice 7.7 trough filled with ice60
Fig. 9. Diagram illustrating the relation of drift to the underlying rock 63
Fig. 10. Drift resting on distorted shale. Railway cut southeast of New Brunswick 106
PLATE-Diagram of stream-flowsFacing page 162

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