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MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
[bull. ; 
SOUTHERN ATLANTIC STATES. 
The general geologic features of the Southern Atlantic States are very 
much like those of the Northern Atlantic division and the mineral springs 
are also similar. Sulphureted waters and chalybeate springs are most 
prominent in both. There is, however, this difference : thermal springs, 
which are of infrequent occurrence in the northern section, are quite 
numerous in the southern. This is probably due to the fact that faulted 
strata are more prevalent in the Southern Appalachians than in the 
Northern, which recent observations by members of the United States 
Geological Survey (most of them still unpublished) seem to indicate is 
the case. The connection of many noted European springs with dislo- 
cated strata has long been known, and Prof. W. B. Eogers also called 
attention to the same state of things in Virginia, in his memoir On the 
Connection of Thermal Springs in Virginia with Anticlinal Axes and 
Faults, published (1840-1842) in the Transactions of the Association of 
American Geologists and Naturalists. 
The Southern Atlantic States have more springs that are utilized for 
places of resort than has any other section, except the Southern Cen- 
tral States. 
Virginia stands at the head of the section in this respect. Only one 
State (Tennessee) in any other section has more, and in the latter case 
probably more of the localities are used simply as local resorts. 
A large number of the springs in this section are still unknown so far 
as a definite statement of their chemical constituents is concerned, but 
every year adds to the list of analyses. 
Summary for Southern Atlantic States. 
States. 
Number of 
spring lo- 
calities. 
Number of 
individual 
springs. 
Number of 
springs 
analyzed. 
Number of 
spriDg lo- 
calities 
utilized 
as resorts. 
Number of rr.^ fo1 „„ m 
„-~„;~~„ lotal num- 
springs, b f 
used com- „„„i„ Q " 
merciallyJ anaJ yses. 
Delaware 
Maryland 
District of Columbia 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
Florida 
Total 
371 
5 
101 
4 
307 
69 
175 
58 
1,048 
148 
(178) 
152 
42 
164 
