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FIG. 25. A Dyke near Marquette, Michigan 39 



FIG. 26. A Monadnock, Ishpeming, Michigan 40 



FIG. 27. Rocks Folded and Crumpled, Jasper and Hematite, 



Ishpeming, Michigan 41 



FIG. 28. Map of Surface Rocks, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan . 43 

 FIG. 29. A Coral Reef Exposed at Quarry, Thornton, Illinois, 



Showing the Concentric Lines of Deposit ... 45 

 FIG. 30. Map Showing Land and Sea When Potsdam Sandstone 



Was Depositing (Upper Acadian), after Schuchert . 47 

 FIG. 3 1 . Map Showing Land and Sea When Magnesian Limestone 



Was Depositing (Beekmantown); after Schuchert . . 47 

 FIG. 32. Map Showing Land and Sea When Richmond Shales Were 



Depositing (Cincinnatian), after Schuchert ... 47 

 FIG. 33. Map Showing Land and Sea When a Part of the Niagara 



Limestone Was Depositing (Mid-Silurian), after 



Schuchert 47 



FIG. 34. Animal Fossils from Niagara Limestone .... 49 

 FIG. 35. Map of the Late Paleozoic When the Illinois Coal Beds 



Were Depositing (Upper Pennsylvanian) , after Schuchert 5 1 

 FIG. 36. Fossils of the Coal Period from Mazon Creek, Illinois . 53 

 FIG. 37. The Great Arch of Rocks in Illinois, a Diagram . . 54 



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FIG. 38. Glacial Map of North America 57 



FIG. 39. Conjectural Preglacial River System 58 



FIG. 40. Angular and Striated Glacial Bowlder near Glencoe, 



Illinois 60 



FIG. 41. Grooves and Scratches on Bed Rock at Stony Island Due 



to Glacial Erosion 61 



FIG. 42. Map of Moraines in the Chicago Region .... 62 

 FIG. 43. Map of Moraines in Illinois, from Bulletin State Geological 



Survey 65 



FIG. 44. View of Typical Glacial Country a Few Miles Southwest 



of Chicago .66 



FIG. 45. Flathead, below Joliet, General View and Detail . . 67 



FIG. 46. Figures of Several Crystals 68 



FIG. 47. Cleavage Shown in a Piece of Orthoclase Feldspar . . 69 



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FIG. 48. The Wisconsin Ice Sheet at Its Maximum Extension . 79 

 FlG. 49. An Old Shore Line of Lake Chicago . . . . . 80 



