Roadside Geology of Ohio

by Camp, Mark J.

• ISBN13: 9780878425242
• ISBN10: 0878425241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-31
• Publisher: Mountain Pr

Summary

The 25 road guides of Roadside Geology of Ohio, complete with 59 maps and figures and 172 photographs, lead you from one corner of the state to the other-from the flat till plains of the west to the hilly eastern Allegheny Plateau, and from the Ohio River

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii
INTRODUCTION TO OHIO'S GEOLOGY	1	(34)
A Geologic Calendar	1	(1)
Plate Tectonics and Ohio's Origins	2	(2)
Ohio's Basement	4	(1)
Paleozoic Time	5	(7)
North American Mountain-Building Events	5	(2)
The Ordovician World	7	(1)
The Silurian World	7	(1)
The Devonian World	8	(1)
The Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian Worlds	9	(2)
The Missing Record	11	(1)
Arches and Sedimentary Basins	11	(1)
The Pleistocene Ice Age	12	(5)
Glacial Erosion and Deposition	14	(2)
Windblown Sediments	16	(1)
Record in the Rocks	17	(2)
Common Ohio Fossils	19	(3)
Rocks as Resources	22	(5)
Sand and Gravel	24	(1)
Ohio's Common Minerals	24	(3)
Other Notable Geologic Features	27	(8)
Groundwater and Karst	27	(2)
Rivers and Streams	29	(1)
Flooding Rivers and Flash Floods	30	(1)
Slides and Slumps	31	(4)
WESTERN OHIO—THE TILL PLAINS	35	(114)
Ordovician Formations	35	(5)
Silurian Formations	40	(5)
Devonian Formations	45	(3)
The Pleistocene Ice Age	48	(2)
The Great Black Swamp	50	(2)
Lima-Indiana Oil and Gas Field	52	(1)
The Stone Industry	53	(1)
ROAD GUIDES
1-70 and U.S. 40: Buckeye Lake—Indiana Line	54	(4)
1-71: Columbus—Cincinnati	58	(5)
1-75: Toledo—Cincinnati	63	(15)
1-80/90 (Ohio Turnpike) and U.S. 20: Toledo—Indiana Line	78	(5)
U.S. 23: Toledo—Chillicothe	83	(16)
U.S. 24: Toledo—Indiana Line	99	(5)
U.S. 30 and U.S. 224: Crestline and Willard—Indiana Line	104	(6)
U.S. 50: Chillicothe—Indiana Line	110	(10)
U.S. 68: Findlay—Aberdeen	120	(16)
U.S. 127: Michigan Line—Cincinnati	136	(7)
Ohio 32: Peebles—Cincinnati	143	(6)
OHIO UPLANDS—THE ALLEGHENY PLATEAU	149	(155)
Devonian and Mississippian Formations	150	(3)
Pennsylvanian Formations	153	(5)
Coal Formation	158	(1)
Permian Formations	158	(2)
Coal Mining	160	(2)
The Clay Industry	162	(1)
The Pleistocene Ice Age	163	(1)
The Teays Drainage	164	(2)
ROAD GUIDES
1-70 and U.S. 40: Bridgeport—Buckeye Lake	166	(19)
1-71: Cleveland—Columbus	185	(13)
1-77: Cleveland—Marietta	198	(19)
1-80 and U.S. 422: Pennsylvania Line—Cleveland	217	(10)
U.S. 23: Chillicothe—Portsmouth	227	(4)
U.S. 30 and U.S. 224/I-76: East Liverpool and the Pennsylvania Line—Crestline and Willard	231	(18)
U.S. 33: Columbus—Pomeroy	249	(24)
U.S. 50: Coolville—Chillicothe	273	(4)
U.S. 250: Sandusky—The Ohio River	277	(8)
Ohio 11: Ashtabula—East Liverpool	285	(12)
Ohio 32: Albany—Peebles	297	(7)
LAKESHORE OHIO	304	(38)
History of Lake Erie	304	(4)
Lake Erie Basins	308	(1)
Shoreline Dynamics	308	(5)
ROAD GUIDES
1-90 and U.S. 20 (Including I-80 between Elyria and Toledo): Pennsylvania Line—Toledo	313	(29)
THE OHIO VALLEY—A PRODUCT OF THE ICE AGE	342	(38)
History of the Ohio River	343	(3)
Notable Floods	346	(34)
ROAD GUIDES
U.S. 52: Sybene—Indiana Line	348	(15)
Ohio 7: East Liverpool—Chesapeake	363	(17)
GLOSSARY	380	(7)
ADDITIONAL READING	387	(3)
INDEX	390