CORRELATIVES OF BLOOMHSTGTON MORAINIC SYSTEM. 



103 



A boring 5 miles west of Lebanon, on Claiborn Cain's farm, found gas in the drift at 73 to 

 78 feet. It was continued largely through blue clay to a depth of 243 feet without reaching rock. 



The following sections and data in the vicinity of Thorntown were contributed by J. A. 

 Ball, 1 who states that a heavy deposit of dry gravel, the total thickness of which is not known, 

 lies about 1J miles west of Thorntown. On the farm of Mr. Charles Moffit a well was dug 

 through 4 feet of soil and 40 feet of gravel, when it was discontinued without finding water. 

 At other places in the same locality gravel is known to be of considerable depth. 



Section of Mills well, 1 mile east of Thorntown. 



Soil and yellow clay 



Quicksand 



Clay, blue - 



Feet. 

 25 

 3 



108 



Section of Harris well, 1 mile south of Thorntown. 



Feet. 



Soil and yellow clay : 19 



Quicksand 4 



Clay, blue 103 



Gravel, cemented 6 



132 



Section of Woody well, 3§ miles west of Thorntown. 



Soil and yellow clay. 



Sand, fine, white 



Clay, blue 



Limestone 



Feet. 



18 



55 



71 



3 



117 



Section of well near Union Church, 3 miles east of Thorntown. 



Feet. 



Soil and yellow clay 27 



Quicksand 9 



Clay, blue 75 



Section of Witt & Klizer's viell at Thorntown mill. 



[Given by J. A. Ball, who superintended the boring.) 



Feet. 



Soil 2 



Clay, yellow 19 



Quicksand 4 



Clay, blue 125 



Shale, siliceous ("soapstone") 193 



[Re-collected by engineer at the mill.] 



Soil 



Clay, yellow 



Gravel 



Clay, blue 



Cedar tree. 



Clay, blue 



''Soapstone" 



Limestone, gray. 



343 



13 



3 



82 



37 

 60 

 136 



Section of Dukes & Wetherald's wells, 3 miles north of Thorn- 

 town. 



[The wells are on opposite sides of the road.] 



Feet. 



Soil and yellow clay 18 



Quicksand 12 



Clay, blue 153| 



Sandstone, red 34 



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The present writer obtained records of gas borings at Thorntown which show much less 

 drift than that at the mill. One in the valley of Prairie Creek in the east part of the village 

 penetrated about 40 feet of drift, mainly sand and gravel; the other, on the uplands in the 

 south part of the village at an altitude 35 feet or more above the well in the creek valley, pene- 

 trated about 75 feet of drift, also mainly sand and gravel. In both a limestone occurs which is 

 wanting in the well at the mill. 



Tipton County. — At Kempton, in western Tipton County, the gas borings, although all 

 starting at an altitude of about 925 feet, show drift ranging in thickness from 243 to 306 feet, 

 as follows: Near depot, 306 feet; 500 yards east, 257 feet; 700 yards east, 243 feet; about a 

 mile southwest, 260 feet. 



Section of drift in well 500 yards east of Kempton station. 



Feet. 



Soil and yellow till 10 



Sand and till in alternate layers each a few feet in thickness, the till mainly blue 165 



Gravel 65 



Clay, sandy, very hard 17 



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Fifteenth Ann. Rept. Indiana Dept. Geology and Nat. Hist.. 1SS6, p. 173. 



