CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



Letter of transmittal xv 



Organization xvii 



Scope and Plan of the Survey xix 



Plan of Operations : xxiii 



Work of the First Tear xxiv 



Topography - . . xxiv 



Geology xxv 



Laboratory xxvii 



Museum xxvih 



Library xxvhi 



Office xxvhi 



Results xxix 



Introduction xxix 



Topography xxix 



Geology xxx 



Gulf Coast formations xxxi 



Coast clays xxxii 



Fayette beds xxxih 



Timber Belt beds xxxvi 



Lignite xxxix 



Laredo coal xl 



Basal clays - . xlii 



Iron ores xlh 



Cretaceous xhv 



Upper xlv 



Lower 1 



The Central Basin formations • liv 



Archaean . .... lv 



Eparchsean lvii 



Ores lviii 



Paleozoic lx 



Cambrian lx 



Silurian lxii 



Devonian lxiii 



Carboniferous . . * lxiii 



Coal lxvi 



Permian lxix 



Mesozoic lxxi 



Jura-Trias lxxi 



Artesian water lxxi 



Personnel lxxiv 



Acknowledgments , lxxv 



REPORTS OF GEOLOGISTS. 



Report of Mr. W. von Streeruwitz . . lxxix 



"W. F. Cummins lxxxii 



R. T. Hill ". ... lxxxiii 



Theo. B. Comstock ,,..,. lxxxvhi 



