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Coal Measures and Coal Mining in Iowa, including paleontology and a discussion on the coal formation; also the methods of mining by Russell T. Hartman, 1898

Coal Measures and Coal Mining in Iowa by Russell T. Hartman, 1898, Page 14

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13. careous material which in weathering leaves the limestone fragments as boulders projecting from the matrix. The marl which in places forms the capping member of the Saint Louis is usually highly fossiliferous. This marl is exposed at Fort Dodge in Webster county at at Pella, Harvey and Tracey in Marion county. In some places this marl was completely removed in the lapse of the time between the Lower and Upper Carboniferous epochs. The limestone of the Saint Louis is used locally for building and lime burning purposes; but is not to be recommended for such purposes.
 
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