Download or read book Loess Formations of the Mississippi Valley (Classic Reprint) written by Morris Morgan Leighton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Loess Formations of the Mississippi Valley Buried beneath two drift sheets, the pro-kansan? Loess is not well known; but Savage and Udden (1921) record a well section at Rock Island, Illinois, at the base of the bluff near Seventh Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street, which revealed fossiliferous loess directly beneath Kan san drift, apparently without evidence of a weathering interval. The possibility that the advancing Kansan ice may have cut away the weathered zone, if it once existed, is to be considered. The pre sumption is that it was blown from a valley train Of the advancing Kansan ice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.