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...indication of what might be accomplished is given by the recent report on the terranean strata of Harvard Hall. Ground into the original wooden floor, which is occasionally exposed at the surface, there is a hard crystaline composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust...
...Arbuckle Mountain area of Oklahoma contains perhaps the most complete series of sedimentary rocks from before pre-Cambrian times in America, says Prof. C. E. Decker, of the University of Oklahoma. Folding and erosion have exposed the beds, with great fossil deposits, for study...
...shell for the University crew, presented by Mrs. Robert Bacon, which was made by George Sims & Son, of Putney, England, arrived in Boston yesterday morning on the steamship "Cambrian." From Boston it will be taken to the Newell boathouse and during the spring practice will be given a thorough test by the University crew. The new shell is 61 feet long and is of the American type, all the seats being placed directly over the keel instead of being alternately to port and starboard as in all English boats...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Chemistry of the Pre-Cambrian Rivers." Professor Reginald A. Daly, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mineralogical Library...
...Charles Van Hise Pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geologist, professor successively of metallurgy, mineralogy and geology, president of the leading state university, the University of Wisconsin...