GEOLOGY

OF

TENNESSEE

BY

JAMES M. SAFFORD, A. M., PH. D.,
STATE GEOLOGIST,
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL SCIENCE IN CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY, LEBANON, TENNESSEE.


BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
NASHVILLE:

1869

Digital Version prepared by Don Chesnut ©2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Front Parts

PART I—Physical Geography

• CHAPTER I.—The State In General
• CHAPTER II.—Natural Divisions of the State
1. Unaka Chain
2. Valley of East Tennessee
3. Cumberland Table-land
• CHAPTER III.—Natural Divisions,—Continued
4. The Highlands, or Highland Rim
5. Central Basin
6. Western Valley
7. Plateau of West Tennessee
8. Mississippi Bottom

PART II.—Geological Structure and Formations

• CHAPTER IV.—General Character of Formations; Their Origin; The Changes They Have Been Made To Undergo As Elements In The Structure Of The State
• CHAPTER V.—Enumeration and Sequence of Formations
• CHAPTER VI.—Metamorphic Group; Formation I
• CHAPTER VII.—The Postdam Group; Series II
• CHAPTER VIII.—Trenton And Nashville Groups; Formations III And IV
• CHAPTER IX.—The Niagara And Lower Helderberg Groups
• CHAPTER X.—The Black Shale; Formation VII
• CHAPTER XI.—Lower Carboniferous; Formation VIII
• CHAPTER XII.—The Coal Measures; Formation IX
• CHAPTER XIII.—Cretaceous Formations; Series X
• CHAPTER XIV.—The Tertiary Groups; Series XI
• CHAPTER XV.—The Bluff Groups And Alluvium; Series XII and XIII

PART III.—The Minerals and Rocks of Special Use

• CHAPTER XVI.—The Ores And Metals
• CHAPTER XVII.—Minerals Not Considered Ores, And Rocks Of Special Use

PART IV— Soils and Agricultural Features; Climatic Tables

• CHAPTER XVIII.—Soils And Agricultural Features
• CHAPTER XIX.—Climatic Tables; Supplementary
• APPENDIX A.—Paleontology
• INDEX
• PLATES