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Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury department By David Dale Owen, United States geologist
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geology--Mississippi River Valley.
- Geology.
- Paleontology--Mississippi River Valley.
- Paleontology.
- Botany--Wisconsin.
- Botany.
- Botany--Minnesota.
- Birds--Wisconsin.
- Birds.
- Birds--Minnesota.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, [39]-638 p., 1 l. illus. and atlas of plates, maps and sections (partly fold.) 32 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1852.
- Contents:
- Geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, by D.D. Owen.
- Geological report of a survey of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, made during the years 1847, '48, '49 and '50 ... by J.G. Norwood.
- Geological report of that portion of Wisconsin bordering on the south shore of Lake Superior, surveyed in the year 1849 ... by Charles Whittlesey.
- Geological report of local, detailed observations, in the valleys of the Minnesota, Mississippi, and Wisconsin rivers, made in the years 1848 and 1849 ... by B.F. Shumard.
- Description of the remains of extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, from Nebraska Territory ... by Joseph Leidy.
- Notes:
- Final report addressed to the commissioner of the U.S. General land office.
- Atlas has title: Illustrations to the geological report of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota ...
- Appendix. I. Description of new and imperfectly known genera and species of organic remains, by D.D. Owen.--II. Descriptions of one new genus and twenty-two new species of Crinoidea, from the subcarboniferous limestone of Iowa, by D.D. Owen and B.F. Shumard.--III. Summary of the distribution of orders, genera, and species in the northwest.--IV. Additional chemical examinations, by D.D. Owen.--V. Systematic catalogue of plants of Wisconsin and Minnesota, by C.C. Parry.--VI. Systematic catalogue of birds observed in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, by Henry Pratten.
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