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Title

On the crystalline limestone and the conformably associated Taconic and other schists of the Green Mountain region : memoirs / by James D. Dana.

Author

Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895.

Publication

New Haven, Conn. : [J.D. Dana], 1873-1882 [i.e. 1872-1888]

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Additional Authors

Dwight, William Buck, 1833-1906.

Description

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, maps (some color); 23 cm

Subject

• Schists > Taconic Range
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Cambrian
• Geology > Westchester County
• Geology > Manhattan (New York)
• Geology > Taconic Range
• Geology > Green Mountains Region
• Geology > New England

Note

• Consists of a collection of 31 previously issued papers, brought together and reissued with a common t.p. and explanatory note; papers issued 1882-88 are also added.

Contents

• On the quartzite, limestone and associated rocks of the vicinity of Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Mass. / by James D. Dana. 1872 -- On rocks of the Helderberg Era, in the Valley of Connecticut / by James D. Dana. 1873 -- An accout of the discoveries in Vermont geology of the Rev. Augustus Wing ... / by James D. Dana. 1877 -- Supplement to the account of the discoveries in Vermont geology of the Rev. Augustus Wing / by James D. Dana. 1877 -- On the relations of the geology of Vermont to that of Berkshire / by James D. Dana. -- Conclusions as to the relations of Vermont geology and
• Berkshire geology -- Lithological conclusions : with special reference to the use of lithological characters as a test of geological age -- Orographic conclusions -- Note on the Helderberg formation of Bernardston, Massachusetts, and Vernon, Vermont / by James D. Dana. 1877 -- On the Hudson River age of the Taconic schists, and on the dependent relations of the Dutchess County and western Connecticut limestone belts / by James D. Dana. 1879 -- On some recent explorations in the Wappinger Valley limestone of Dutchess County, New York / by Wm. B. Dwight. 1879 -- On the Hudson
• River age of Taconic schists : supplement / by James D. Dana. 1879 -- Recent explorations in the Wappinger Valley Limestone of Dutchess County, New York / by W.B. Dwight. 1880 -- Note on the age of the Green Mountains / by James D. Dana. 1880 -- On the geological relations of the limestone belts of Westchester County, New York / by James D. Dana. 1880 -- Distribution of the belts or areas of limestone. 1880 -- Geological relations of the limestone belts of Westchester County, New York / by James D. Dana. 4 pts., 1880 --
• Geological relations of the limestone belts of Westchester County, New York : origin of the "Cortlandt series" / by James D. Dana. 1881 -- Geological relations of the limestone belts of Westchester County, New York : section of the Mott Haven belt of limestone on 122d St., New York Island / by James D. Dana. 1881 -- Geological age of the Taconic system / by James D. Dana. 1882 -- On the southward ending of a great synclinial in the Taconic Range / by James D. Dana. 1884 -- On the decay of quartzyte, and the formation of sand
• kaolin, and crystallized quartz / by James D. Dana. 1884 -- Decay of quartz: Pseudo-breccia / by James D. Dana. 1885 -- Berkshire geology / by James D. Dana. 1886 -- On Taconic rocks and stratigraphy, with a geological map of the Taconic region / by James D. Dana. 2 pts., 1885-1887 -- On Lower Silurian fossils from a limestone of the original Taconic of Emmons / by James D. Dana. 1886 -- Preliminary report of S.W. Ford and W.B. Dwight, upon fossils obtained in 1885 from metamorphic limestones
• of the Taconic series of Emmons at Canaan, N.Y. / 1886 -- A brief history of Taconic ideas / by James D. Dana. 1888.

LCCN

gs 14000160

OCLC

• ocm26816564
• SCSB-3683842

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries