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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

Honors Papers

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.


The Paleozoic Stratigraphy Of Lorain County, Ohio, Edwin Hugo Wenberg Jan 1938

The Paleozoic Stratigraphy Of Lorain County, Ohio, Edwin Hugo Wenberg

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During the course of the school year 1936-37 spent at Oberlin, which is situated near the center of Lorain County, Ohio, the writer had the opportunity to study the outcrops and to gather records of wells in this area.

A study of the strata of this county is confusing because the same rocks have been described under different formational names. Originally many of these strata were traced northward from type sections in central Ohio or westward from type sections near Cleveland. At a later date many of the strata were reclassified and assigned to formations which had been traced westward …