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Gems & half gems 160, Gypsum Family 50, Halite 20, Calcite 140, Arragonite 20, Fluorite 100, Baryte or heavy spar 40, Clays 25, Sulphur 8 Carbons 25
Contains about 2500 varieties, a Auxilliary Collection for illustrating Structure of minerals Chrystallography and physical properties and for Blopipe experiments
Lithological collection
Collection of rocks
Granite Rocks
Porphyritic "
Hornblende "
Dioritic "
Schistose metamorphic micaceous
Gabbro or Euphotide rocks
Augitic rocks
Sepentine "
Trachytic "
[Quartzore?]
Calcareous
Gypsum
Dolomitic
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Lithological Collection
Salt rock
Iron rocks
Coals [?]
Fragmented rocks
Conlomerates or Puddings
Breccias, Sandstones, Molasse[?]
[--Congl--] Argillaceous rocks
Plastic clays
Argillaceous slates
Shales [?]
Gangue rocks
A series of rocks arranged to illustrate the structures
Mineralogical & Lithological collection will amount to about 3000 specimens
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Geological Synopsis of Collection
Geological divisions represented in the Collection arranged according to Danas Manual of Geology
... I Archaean Time
Laurentian Period
Huronian Period
represented by crystalline & metamorphic & other rocks
... II Palaeozoic Time
I Silurian Age
... a lower Silurian
Primordial or Cambrian Period
Potsdam & Canadian Epoch
Trenton Epoch
Utica & Cincinnati Epochs or Hudson river Group
... b upper Silurian [--Epoch--]
Medina Epoch
Clinton "
Niagara "
lower Helderberg Ep.
Oriskany Ep.
European Silurian
represented by 800 species & varieties
... Devonian Age
Corniferous Period
Hamilton "
Chemung "
European Devonian
about 250 [insert: - 300] species & varieties
... Carboniferous Age
[dub?sub?]carboniferous Period
Kinderhook, Burlington, Waverley, Keokuk, St Louis Chester, European
... Carboniferous Period
Millstone grit
Coal measures
... Permian Period
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... Mesozoic Time
Triassic Period
new red sandstone grès [big ??]
Muschelkalk / calcaire coquillier
Keuper / marnes irisées
St Cassian or alpine Trias
... Jurassic Period
English
... Lias
lower (Sinemurian d'Orbigny)
middle (Liasian)
Upper (Toarcian)
... Oolyte
... Lower Oolite / brown Jura / Germany
inferior Oolite / Bajocien
Fullers earth
Great Oolite Bathonien
Callovian
... Middle Oolite / white Jura Germany
Oxford clay Oxfordien
Spongiferous limestone
Coralrag / Corallien
... Upper Oolite
Lithographic or Solenhopen [group?]
Kimmeridgien
Portland Oolyte
Purbeck beds
Wealden
... Cretaceous Period
... Lower Cretaceous
Neocomien France
Urgonian "
Aptien "
... lower Greens and England
... Middle Cretaceous
Gault England
Albian France
Cenomanian " upper greensand
lower Quadersandstone
" Plaener limestone
... Upper Cretaceous
{ Lower or gray Chalk Engl.
{ Turonian France
Hippurite limestone
upper Plaener
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... upper Cretaceous
white Chalk, Senomian France, Ober Quader, Gosau beds
Danian (Maistricht beds)
American Cretaceous
Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas
... Cenozoic Time
... Tertiary Age
Alabama Period / Eocene
Claiborne - Jackson - Vicksburgh
[grouped?]
... Eocene Europe
Parisian basin - Nummulitic group
... Miocene & Pliocene
Fahlunien, Molasse marine & fresh water, Basin of Vienna
... Quaternary Age
Glacial Epoch - Post pliocene
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... Archaeological
Mound builders [or?] Stone Age
Collection of stone implements & other indian relics found in indian mounds; although some reach [insert: to] our historical time. Many belong to the prehistoric [--and--] or Quarternary or age of man. This is a very large and valuable collection for a museum.
... Lithological Collection
carefully selected specimens of rocks for illustrating lectures and studying Lithology