The Drift Section and the Glacial Striae in the Vicinity of Lamoni, Iowa

Authors

T. J. FitzpatrickFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Workmen digging a well at the elevator during April, 1896, came to a forest bed at a depth of eighty-five feet below the surface. Quite a number of pieces of wood were removed, one being a branched log, eight inches in diameter and five or six feet in length. Three pieces were secured by the writer and microscopic sections made of the wood revealed the border pits, characteristic of conifers. The materials passed through above the forest bed were composed of yellowish and blue clay charged with usually small pebbles. A 425-foot well drilled by the city, two blocks north of the elevator, has left only an obscure record. The only data of interest preserved were the facts that the limerock was 200 feet below the surface, and the materials passed through above were clay and gravel.

Publication Date

1897

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences

Volume

5

Issue

1

First Page

105

Last Page

106

Copyright

©1897 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Fitzpatrick, T. J. (1897) "The Drift Section and the Glacial Striae in the Vicinity of Lamoni, Iowa," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 5(1), 105-106.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol5/iss1/18