Author: Martha S. CarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building stones
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The District of Columbia, Its Rocks and Their Geologic History
Author: Martha S. CarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building stones
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The District of Columbia, Its Rocks and Their Geologic History (Classic Reprint)
Author: Martha S. CarrPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266892687
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Excerpt from The District of Columbia, Its Rocks and Their Geologic History In Pleistocene time, when the glaciers on the northern part of the continent were melting, the Potomac Basin was subjected to recurrent floods. Then as the region gradually rose, the shifting waters of the old rivers carved terraces in the rocks, especially in the soft Coastal Plain beds, and deposited on the terraces new sheets of gravel, sand, and clay. The main part of the city is built on these terraces. The earliest life of which any evidence has been found in the District of Columbia existed about 100 million years ago during early Cretaceous time. Animal life of that epoch included fresh-water mollusks, turtles, crocodiles, and huge dinosaurs; among the plants were ferns, sequoia. Water-lily, and grape. Fossil remains from later deposits include various mollusks, shark teeth, and leaves of the oak, elm, sumac, holly, and blueberry. Of the mineral resources of the District of Columbia, stone has had a leading part. Gneiss and granite quarried near Rock Creek and on the banks of the Potomac above Georgetown were used in early buildings and still are employed to some degree. The extensive deposits of gravel, sand, and clay of the Coastal Plain have long been used in the manufacture of brick and terra-cotta tile and in road building. Also present in or near the District are iron ore and diatomaceous earth in the Coastal Plain area and manganese, mica, feldspar, and gold in the Piedmont area, but attempts made at various times to develop these have not been very successful, generally because of relatively low quantity or quality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Geology, Hydrology, and History of the Washington, D.C. Area
Author: John Ezra MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The District of Columbia, Its Rocks and Their Geologic History
Author: Martha S. CarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building stones
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The District of Columbia
Author: Martha Ensign Strait CarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building stones
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The River and the Rocks
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Geological Exploration of the Southern Rock Creek Valley in DC
Author: James V. O'ConnorPublisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN: 9780875906744
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 208. Rock Creek Park is a special place for studying geology. Founded as the city park in 1890, Rock Creek Park serves as an oasis in the urban environment. Rock Creek Valley is a steep craggy Piedmont eroded zone where one can observe the bedrock, follow the evolution of the Fall Zone,and measure the topographically isolated Coastal Plain gravels. Figure 1 is the map of the stops to observe the general geology. The Rock Creek Valley is a textbook for research on the early Paleozoic history. Metasedimentary and igneous rocks reveal the marine and tectonic stories of a proto-Atlantic Ocean. Metamorphic mineralalogy is set in folds, faults, and fracture systems. Paleozoic tectonics is covered on the bluffs unconformable by gravels of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The Cretaceous ancestral Potomac sediments are also reworked into the lower elevation sediment deposits of late Cenozoic age (Miocene ? - Holocene). Figure 2 is a general geology map of the District. Rock Creek served as a field site for the 5th International Congress for Geologists in 1891. We will revisit some of those same stops almost a century later and follow in the footsteps of the early American pioneers: W. J. McGee, N. H. Darton, A. Keith, G. Williams, and B. Willis.
Geology of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Potomac River Corridor, District of Columbia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is 184.5 mi long and extends from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Md. The canal passes through three physiographic provinces including the Piedmont, Valley and Ridge, and the Blue Ridge; the map area also includes rocks of the Coastal Plain and Appalachian Plateaus provinces. Each province contains unique packages of rocks that influenced the character of the canal and towpath. The ages of the bedrock encountered along the length of the park range from Mesoproterozoic to Jurassic and represent a variety of tectonic and depositional environments. The different rock types and surficial deposits dictated the various construction methods for the canal, which was excavated in Quaternary flood-plain deposits as well as through bedrock. The ancient course of the Potomac River and the deposits it left behind also influenced the location of the canal and towpath. The engineers made good use of the many rock types to construct the locks, dams, aqueducts, and culverts that guided water from the Potomac River into the canal and maintained the water level as canal boats traveled between higher elevations in western Maryland to sea level in Washington, D.C. The canal and towpath provide a unique transect across the central Appalachian region for examining the rich geologic diversity and history.
Geology Under Cities
Author: Robert Ferguson LeggetPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081374105X
Category : Engineering geology
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The nine papers in this volume cover the geology beneath Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Edmonton, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, Toronto, and St. Paul/Minneapolis, and present methods of data gathering that could be used in most cities.
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