Identifier: geologyagricultu05loui (find matches)
Title: Geology and agriculture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Louisiana Geological Survey Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Baton Rouge
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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dstone to bed of branch 2 Layer 3 outcrops in Sec. 7, 8, 17 and 21, 10 N., 5 E. In theChalk Hills (about Sec. 7, 10 N., 5 E.) it occupies the tops ofhills, and the cost of obtaining it would consequently be small. The section here shown is : 1. Sand 0-6 feet. 2. Soft, friable, fine gray sandstone 3. Chalk —a fine white clay 8 4. Fine sandstone i foot. 5. Dark gray or drab indurate clay, with vegetable impressions 10-14 feet. 6. Hillside, no good exposures, covered with large sandstone bowlders, so evidently in place. . 50 A number of sampled of this material were collected and leftwith a gentleman at Rosefield to be forwarded. The materialhas not yet been received, and we are, therefore, unable to pre-sent this year results of tests to determine their exact economicvalue. Samples of it are, however, reported to have been madeinto good stoneware at New Orleans. Johnson reports a similar clay in the Grand Gulf rocks, nearLena, and it is also reported 10 miles southeast of Fort Jessup.
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