K^lSrS^S CITY 



Review of Science and Industry, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 



VOL V. JULY, 1881. NO. 3. 



GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 



GEOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE CENTRAL BRANCH UNION PACIFIC 



RAILROAD. 



BY PROF. GEO. C. BROADHEAD. 



At Atchison, the River Bluflfs expose the following sections, numbering from 

 the top: 



I. Three feet red clay and soil. 

 One foot boulders, gravel and sand. 

 Four feet red clay. 



Five feet sand beds in horizontal bands. 

 One foot sand and pebbles. 

 One foot fine sand of yellowish color. 

 Six inches more sand. 

 One foot sand with a few roots. 



These may be referred to Loess. The beds resting below are Upper Car- 

 boniferous, as follows : 



9. Sixteen feet irregularly bedded limestone, chiefly in six inch layers. Cor- 

 responds to No. 150, of Geological section of Upper Coal Measures. See Missouri 

 Geological Report, 1872. 



10. Four feet brown clay shales. 



II. Four feet Bituminous shales. 



12. Twenty inches even bed of limestone. 



13. Thirty feet shales to railroad. 



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