Report Of The Geological Survey Of Ohio Volume 2

Author : Geological Survey of Ohio
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330364321
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, 1873 written by Geological Survey of Ohio and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, 1873, Vol. 2 The plan for the publication of the Final Report of the Geological Survey submitted by the Chief Geologist to the Geological Board, and adopted by them, provided for two volumes on Geology, two on Palæontology, one on Economic Geology, and one on Zoology, Botany, and Agriculture. It also contemplated the preparation of a general geological map of the State. In framing this plan, the requirements of the organic law of the Survey, as construed by the Geological committees in the Legislature, the Geological Board, and the Geological Corps, were carefully complied with. Section 5 of the act authorizing the Geological Survey provides that "when the said survey shall be fully completed, the Chief Geologist shall make to the Governor a final report, including the results of the entire survey, accompanied by such drawings and topographical maps as may be necessary to illustrate the same, and by a simple geological map showing by colors and other appropriate means the stratification of the rocks, the character of the soil, the localities of the beds of mineral deposits, and the character and extent of the different geological formations." In obedience to this requirement, but before the completion of the field and office work of the Survey, the Chief Geologist submitted to the Governor sufficient material to form two of the volumes specified in his plan for the Final Report. The publication of this material was authorized by the Legislature as Volume I. of the Final Report of the Geological Survey, and twenty thousand copies of this volume were ordered to be printed. The quantity of material presented was, however, so large that it could not be conveniently included in a single cover; and it was therefore, thought by the Geological Board best to publish the volume in two parts, one of which should be devoted to Geology, and the other to Palæontology. In the very generous provision made for the publication of this volume, it was specified that it should be published on paper of superior quality, and that, in all respects, the work should be done in the best possible style. No special provision was made, however, for securing the publication of the report in the style contemplated by the Legislature, and when the matter was placed in the hands of the printer it was found that no authority had been conveyed to the Geological Board, or any other officer of the State, to purchase and use any other paper than that supplied under the general contracts made by the Secretary of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.