Report, Volumes 3-4Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, 1872 - 8 pages Includes an unnumbered report for 1879-80 with the Indiana geological report "from the second Annual report of the Bureau of Statistics and Geology." |
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Page 432 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 61 - Ohio ; on the South by the Ohio River, and on the west by the State of Illinois.
Page 170 - Where characters which appear latest in embryonic history are lost, we have simple retardation, that is, the animal in successive generations fails to grow up to the highest point of completion, falling further and further back, thus presenting an increasingly slower growth in the special direction in question.
Page 158 - ... on the floor. The destruction having reached the thin-bedded strata above, the breaking down has proceeded with greater rapidity, each bed breaking away over a narrower area than that below it. When the heavily-bedded rock has been again reached, the breakage has ceased, and the stratum remains as a heavy coping stone to the hollow dome. Of course the process piles a hill beneath, and the access of water being rendered more easy by the approach to the surface, great stalactites and stalagmites...
Page 169 - A. albidus; it may be supposed to have been enclosed in a subterranean lake for a shorter time than the blind fishes of the Western caves, not only on account of the less degree of loss of visual organs, but also in view of its very dark colors. A feature on which I partly relied in distinguishing the species has, perhaps, a different meaning. The tentacles or beards were described as considerably shorter than those of allied species. On subsequently examining a number of individuals I was struck...
Page 169 - Conestoga belongs, as for instance the A. lynx; it may be supposed to have been enclosed in a subterranean lake for a shorter time than the blind fishes of the Western Caves, not only on account of the less degree of loss of visual organs, but also...
Page 163 - Coscidotea microcephala. Both species are blind. The new species is pure white. It was quite active, and the females carried a pair of egg pouches full of eggs. The situation in which we found it was peculiar. It was only seen in and near an empty log trough used to collect water from a spring dripping from the roof of one of the chambers. The Lernaaan, Cattloxenus stygius Cope, is a remarkable creature.
Page 168 - This is a narrow passage between masses of rock, which rise from the end of a gallery to the floor of a large room called the Senate Chamber. Though living at a distance of four or five miles from the mouth of the cave, this species is furnished with eyes. Its limbs are not very long, but its palpi...
Page 162 - If these Am.blyopses be not alarmed, they come to the surface to feed, and swim in full sight like white aquatic ghosts. They are then easily taken by the hand or net, if perfect silence is preserved, for they are unconscious of the presence of an enemy except through the medinm of hearing. This sense is, however, evidently very acute, for at any noise they turn suddenly downward and hide beneath stones, etc., on the bottom.
Page 403 - ... [See Ohio Geological Report for 1869, p. 26.] The many tributaries have since brought down gravel, sand, clay and mud, thus filling up the valley to the present level of the river bed and the adjoining lowlands. The source of this deposit is to be found in the several formations, including drilt, over which the river and its affluents have flowed. The deposit, or at least the upper part, exhibits a stratified arrangement, and is called modified drift. and is deflected in the opposite direction....