The Status of Sedimentation in Iowa

Authors

A. C. TrowbridgeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Iowa need not be ashamed of the part her geologists have played, either in the past history of sedimentation, or in the recently renewed American activity on this important, but too long neglected subject. There being no igneous rocks in situ within the state and practically no exposures of metamorphic rocks, all the work which has been done on the geology of the state during the years is more or less closely related with sedimentation. The more recent investigations of breccias by Professor W. H. Norton, of gumbotils by Dr. George F. Kay, of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and structure by Dr. John L. Tilton, and of clays by Dr. Sidney L. Galpin, constitute important contributions to knowledge of sedimentary rocks and the conditions under which they are formed. At the State University there is a research course in sedimentation and a sedimentation laboratory is in process of establishment.

Publication Date

1922

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

29

Issue

1

First Page

127

Last Page

127

Copyright

©1922 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Trowbridge, A. C. (1922) "The Status of Sedimentation in Iowa," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 29(1), 127-127.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol29/iss1/20