. Transactions. ution. The mountainbeing axially fractured at its central base as the result of thetensile stress. The floors of the valleys were too high for bottom-drainagefrom this acid earth-reservoir. It dissolved the lime from thecalcareous shales of the Clinton period. By simple gravity ithad already passed through the axial fissures of the mountainlimestone and the black shale; the first limestones that wereincluded in the terrestrial reservoir, however, were acted onchemically, and the water became charged with calcium sul-phate, and was siphoned upward to the accidental level of thes
. Transactions. ution. The mountainbeing axially fractured at its central base as the result of thetensile stress. The floors of the valleys were too high for bottom-drainagefrom this acid earth-reservoir. It dissolved the lime from thecalcareous shales of the Clinton period. By simple gravity ithad already passed through the axial fissures of the mountainlimestone and the black shale; the first limestones that wereincluded in the terrestrial reservoir, however, were acted onchemically, and the water became charged with calcium sul-phate, and was siphoned upward to the accidental level of thesprings. Mr. Hayes makes the objection that he has neverseen the original limestone unaltered. I have so seen it, butonly in one instance. It is indeed rare, and it would be awonder if it were not. In proportion as the drainage-outlets(springs) of that early day assumed lower levels, due to thedeepening of the valley-floors, the limestone outcrops of thehigher points escaped impregnation, and, being left high and. 600 CLINTON RED FOSSIL-ORE IN LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. -In-Coiupression-
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