Review of Science and Industry, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 

 VOL. VIII. JANUARY, 1885. NO. 9. 



QEOLOGY. 



THE LAST SUBMERSION AND EMERGENCE OF SOUTH-EASTERN 

 KANSAS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS SEAS, OR THOSE 

 EFFECTING THE CARBONIFEROUS FORMA- 

 TION IN KANSAS. 1 



E. P. WEST. 



The country along the line of the Southern Kansas Railway, all through 

 southeastern Kansas and extending westward to Harper, the present terminus of 

 the road, is unsurpassed in beauty and the fertility of its broad fields and valleys. 

 It is said, and truthfully, to be the paradise of the husbandman and stockman, 

 and it is no less so of the geologist, the poet, and the artist. 



Whoever has traveled over the line of this road cannot have failed to observe 

 the picturesque and poetic beauty everywhere meeting the eye. Symmetrical 

 mounds rise from the broad plains and valleys, as if by the work of magic, and 

 terraced cliffs, terrace rising above terrace in solemn grandeur, environ the road. 

 Sometimes the cliffs are circular, forming vast amphitheatres extending back for 

 miles. These mark the last emergence of southeastern Kansas from the carbon- 

 iferous seas, and bear unmistakable evidence of powerful and persistent forces 

 which, though perhaps, comparatively brief, have left their impress boldly writ- 

 ten on every feature of the country. 



1 Read at the Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, November, 1884. 

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