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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...of the Yaqui; but directly on commencing the ascent of the hill the brown shale of Guayubin appears, and dipping to the south extends to the top of the pass. Near the summit the higher hills on both sides are seen to be capped with the usual white limestone, apparently nearly horizontal; but it is not encountered anywhere on this part of the road. In the-shale ascending the south side of the hill near the summit, although fossils were nowhere seen, I found white earthy concretions rarely more than an inch or two in length, very irregular in form, and usually more or less botryoidal. They seem to be a little more calcareous than the surrounding mass. On breaking them open I could not detect any fossil around which they might have segregated, as is sometimes the case in these bodies. They are perfectly homogeneous in structure. East of the road the sharp peak of Diego Campo rises, according to barometrical measurement made by Mr. Pennell, 3,855 feet above the sea, the highest point in the Monte Cristi range. That gentleman reports its summit to be of limestone. From Alta Mira to the little streams which form the head of the Isabella the road runs along a very muddy clay ridge, where nothing can be seen of the geology; but further on, the shales with occasional sandstone beds are seen to have dipped northward again, and only pebbles of these sandstones are found in the beds of the watercourses. A little further along a coarse, soft, grayish-brown sandstone occurs, dipping at a very low angle nortlward, and full of the characteristic foraminifera, especially Orbitoides, which have so often proved useful in identifying the formation. Still further north on the summit of the last ridge the limestone occurs capping the ridge as a brown or coarse-grained gray or ev...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130010015
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 162
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130010015
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr

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