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CAPE COD GEOLOGY 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF NANTUCKET ! 



17 — . Macy, Zaccheus. Reports discovery of fossils on the island in a letter to the Massa- 

 chusetts Historical Society, vol. 17. Reprinted by E. K. Godfrey in The island of 

 Nantucket, Boston, 1882. 



1833. Hitchcock, Edward. Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of 

 Massachusetts, 700 pp., map, ills, (in atlas), Amherst. The map was also issued 

 separately in 1832. 



1835. • Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of Massa- 

 chusetts, 2d ed., 702 pp., Amherst. 



1838. . Report on a reexamination of the economical geology of Massachusetts: 



House Document No. 52, 139 pp., Boston, State Printers. 



Lists, on p. 121, 985 acres of peat on the island in beds ranging in thickness from 1 

 to 14 feet. 



1841 . . Final report on the geology of Massachusetts; vol. 1, containing econom- 

 ical geology, scenographical geology, pp. 1-xii, 1-299, map, Amherst; vol. 2, con- 

 taining scientific geology, elementary geology, pp. 301-831, ills., map, Northampton. 

 Repeats former account of the scenery of Nantucket and includes a geological 

 map of the State colored to show that "diluvium" is the geological formation of that 

 island. 



1844. Borden, Simeon. Topographical map of Massachusetts. Includes geologic map, scale 

 5 mi. to 1 inch or 1:316800. 



1844. Hitchcock, Edward. Explanation of the geological map attached to the topographical 

 map of Massachusetts, 22 pp., Boston. 



1848. Desor, Edouard. Drift fossils from Nantucket, Mass. : Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



3, pp. 79-80. 



1849. ■ Deposit of drift shells in the cliffs of Sancati Island, or Nantucket: 



Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1, pp. 100-101. 



anc } Cabot, E. C. On the Tertiary and more recent deposits in the island 



of Nantucket. In letter to Sir Charles Lyell, president of the Geological Society of 



London: Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London (Proc), pp. 340-344. 

 1863. Dana, J. D. Manual of geology, 798 pp., ills., map, Philadelphia. 



1864. . Manual of geology, rev. ed., 800 pp., Philadelphia. 



Refers the shell beds at Sankaty Head to the " Champlain epoch" (p. 551); gives 



height of deposits above sea level as 30 feet. 

 1871. Hitchcock, C. H. Geological description [and geologic map] of Massachusetts. In 



Walling & Gray, Official topographical atlas of Massachusetts, pp. 17-22, map. 

 1875. Dana, J. D. Manual of geology, 2d ed., 828 pp., map, New York. 



Refers the fossil shells at Sankaty Head to the " Champlain epoch" (pp. 550-551), 



states that the species lived in warm water, and appears to assume an elevation of the 



beds of 85 feet above sea level. 

 1875. Scudder, S. H. Note on the post-Pliocene strata of Sankaty Head. In memoir by 



A. E. Verrill (pp. 365-366), listed below. Reprinted by N. S. Shaler in Bull. U. S. 



Geol. Survey, 53, pp. 32-33, 1889. 



1875. Verrill, A. E. On the post-Pliocene fossils of Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island: Am. 



Jour. Sci., 3d ser., 10, pp. 364-375. 



1876. Scudder, S. H. Post-Pliocene fossils from the bluff at Sankaty Head, Nantucket: Proc. 



Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 18, pp. 182-185. 



1 Includes some geographical papers. 



