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A Phase Of The Upper Devonian Of Western Highland County, Virginia, Helen Pulver Foreman Jan 1948

A Phase Of The Upper Devonian Of Western Highland County, Virginia, Helen Pulver Foreman

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This paper is a study of the Brallier and Chemung formations of west Highland County, Virginia. The limits of the Brallier formation are determined on the basis ot faunal and lithological evidence, and correlations made with formations in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia.

The field work was carried on during the latter part of the summer of 1947 and the identification and correlations worked out in the winter of 1947 and the spring of 1948.


A Textural Analysis Of The Bedford Shale Of Lorain County, Ohio, Troy James Laswell Jan 1948

A Textural Analysis Of The Bedford Shale Of Lorain County, Ohio, Troy James Laswell

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Throughout the course of the school year 1947-48 the writer has collected specimens of the Bedford shale from various localities within Lorain County, Ohio. Textural and mineralogical analyses have been made of the specimens in order to determine the textural and petrologic variation between the two facies, and whether each of the facies was deposited under similar conditions.