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USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County
USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County

USGS IRON ORES of EASTERN TEXAS Vintage 1938 Cass Cherokee Marion Morris County

$ 11.61

Availability: 28 in stock
  • Condition: Covers lightly worn and softened. Stamp on the front cover. Spine lightly worn and tanned, but readable. Edges of text block are tanned and a little bumped. All pages have a bite out of the bottom corner. Back cover creased and worn at the edges with a couple nicks. No internal marks. Binding is tight. Map plates are excellent. A very good example of this old report.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL COLOR MAPS!! HUGE AREA!!  ONLY ONE AVAILABLE!!
    This is USGS Bulletin 902
    ,
    The Brown Iron Ores of Eastern Texas
    . Published in
    1938
    , there can't be many of these a
    round! This
    157-page book
    comes with:
    All three large folded maps in a pocket in the back, two of which are full color
    Five fold out maps bound into the text, one of which is full color
    A fold out set of cross sections
    Numerous photos of rocks, features, and locations
    A fold out diagram of composition diagrams
    This book provides a very complete discussion off the widespread iron ores in this region of the coastal plain of eastern Texas. The brown iron ores consist mainly of limonite which forms flat lying deposits of varying thickness covering large areas. Most of the resource potential is in these four counties:
    Cass *
    Cherokee *
    Marion *
    Morris *
    But there are also significant areas in these counties as well:
    Anderson
    Camp
    Franklin
    Gregg
    Harrison
    Henderson *
    Hopkins
    Houston
    Panola
    Rusk *
    Sabine
    Shelby
    Smith
    Titus
    Van Zandt
    Wood
    Upshur
    Nagogdoches
    Those marked with
    *
    have one or more map covering part of the county, or more than one county. The largest map actually covers a huge region of many counties, some not mentioned above.The photos show some cool looking lustrous botryoidal ore and interesting banded concretions. They are some wild looking rocks I had no idea existed in Texas.
    From 1855 to 1935, about a quarter million tons of iron were produced from this region, and an additional 638,000 tons of iron ore was shipped. But I'm not sure if things ever grew from there. Once iron mining got going in Minnesota and Michigan I doubt there was continued interest in this area. But the report is interesting for its history, the cool looking maps and photos, and for all the background it gives on the deposits and their locations. A cool, old, scarce book, nice to find complete with all the maps.
    Expert packing assured. Shipping weight is two pounds. The recent increase in postage rates was pretty big. As a result, Media Mail is now my default shipping method to keep shipping affordable.
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