. Transactions. Sbales s Axial Fissures X z ~~— Uiie_ollOi:e— In-Teusion Fig. 2.—Sketch of Section of Lookout Mountain, Illustrating bothCompression and Tension Fig. 3.—Cauliflower Iron-Ore. CLINTON RED FOSSIL-ORE IN LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. 601 dry, they were subject to all the causes affecting surface-lime-stones. In conclusion, a singular instance of this impregnation insitu is afforded by an unusually high limestone which occurs ahundred feet or so below the Lower Conglomerate. On theroad from Valley Head to Mentone, I saw about 2 ft. of a fossillimestone, the upper part of which had b
. Transactions. Sbales s Axial Fissures X z ~~— Uiie_ollOi:e— In-Teusion Fig. 2.—Sketch of Section of Lookout Mountain, Illustrating bothCompression and Tension Fig. 3.—Cauliflower Iron-Ore. CLINTON RED FOSSIL-ORE IN LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. 601 dry, they were subject to all the causes affecting surface-lime-stones. In conclusion, a singular instance of this impregnation insitu is afforded by an unusually high limestone which occurs ahundred feet or so below the Lower Conglomerate. On theroad from Valley Head to Mentone, I saw about 2 ft. of a fossillimestone, the upper part of which had been converted into aregular iron-ore. It had a water-tight shale below it, repeatingon a small scale the action of the larger influence of the Ter-tiary and Mesozoic agencies. Furthermore, it contained piecesof coal about the size of wheat, and occasionally the size of acoffee-bean. With regard to the character of this coal, it hadthe clean cubic and conchoidal fractures of coal, and was neithersea-wood nor wood; undoubtedly the pieces were deposited inthe ocean, but I do not know from whence they came; prob-ably the ice brought them from some other region, since
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