Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
11-1912
Citation
Science, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 932 (Nov. 8, 1912), pp. 642-643
Abstract
A BED of Eurypterids has just been discovered by the Nebraska Geological Survey in the Carboniferous shales of southeastern Nebraska, and thus a new locality is added to the list for the United States. Such localities are somewhat rare, and notice of any and every new one must be acceptable.
The Carboniferous outcrops are confined to some eight or ten counties in the extreme southeastern corner of the state, and though covered heavily by glacial clays, bold exposures occur in proximity to the bolder streams, especially the Missouri River. About a mile south of Peru, on the Missouri River front, the bluffs are limestones interbedded with thin layers of shale. But within a few hundred feet the shale thickens until the limestone pinches out altogether, and within as many feet the shale becomes increasingly arenaceous until it merges into a bed of massive cross-bedded sandstone. Within a mile this order is symmetrically reversed.