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Illinois State Geological Survey Volumes

III / Worthen / GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY, Urbana, 1868, cl, 572 pages, 20 plates, - 3 -, 2 chips on spine, ovg, $ 299 [Contents: Coal Measures and lower Carboniferous Limestones; County Reports: Union, Perry, Jersey, Greene, Scott, Washington, Clinton, Marion, Jefferson, Cook, LaSalle; Paleontology of Illinois; Supplemental paper on the fossil insects of Illinois, Appendix]

VI / Worthen / GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY, Urbana, cl, 536 pages, - 3 -, $ 325 [Contents: Coal Measures; County Reports: Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Edwards, White, Hamilton, Wayne, Clay, Cumberland, Coles, Douglas, Williamson, Franklin, Bond, Fayette, Montgomery, Christian, Shelby, Effingham, Moultrie, Macon, Piatt, Gallatin, Saline and Livingston; Paleontology of Illinois; Descriptions of Vertebrate and Invertebrates]


Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletins

B 7 / Atwood / PHYSICAL GEOLOGY OF THE EVANSTON - WAUKEGAN [includes: geographic features, geologic formations, glacial deposits, present shoreline, extinct lakes, ravines, underground water]; used, $ 20

B 8 / Bain / YEAR BOOK FOR 1907 [inlcudes Salem limestone, lower Paleozoic stratigraphy of Southwestern Illinois, Milbrig Xheet of the lead and zinc district of Northwestern Illinois]; used, $ 20

B 11 / Goldthwait / PHYSICAL FEATURES OF DES PLAINES VALLEY [includes: geography and history of the Des Plaines River, bedrock, glacial and interglacial deposits, physiographic history]; used, $ 20

B 12 / Fenneman / PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE ST. LOUIS AREA [includes: underlying rocks, Carboniferous, topography, drainage, surface changes, making of valleys, conditions affecting habitation, transportation facilities]; used, $ 20

B 13 / Carman / THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BETWEEN SAVANNA AND DAVENPORT [includes: bedrock formations, Cambrian system, Ordovician system, Silurian system, Devonian system, Pennsylvanian system, Coal Measures, Pleistocene, glacial and eolian]; used, $ 20

B 20 / Cady / YEAR BOOK FOR 1920: ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT FOR 1910 - ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT AND VARIOUS ECONOMIC AND GEOLOGIC PAPERS, MINERAL PRODUCTION IN 1909 AND 1910 [Carlyle Oil Field, Carlinville Oil and Gas Field, geology and mineral resources of the Springfield Quadrangle, extinct lakes in southern and western Illinois and adjacent]; new, $ 30; used, $ 20

B 21 / Cox / LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS OF NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS,  Urbana, 1914, cl, 120 pages, 22 plates (4 in pocket), 13 figs., - 5 -, archival repairs, $ 75

B 23 / DeWolf / BIENNIAL REPT FOR 1911 AND 1912: ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT AND ECONOMIC AND GEOLOGICAL PAPER  [Contents: Administrative Report and Economic and Geological Papers, Mineral Statistics, Oil and Gas in Colchester and McComb Quadrangles, Plymouth Oil Field, Geology of LaSalle and Hennepin Quadrangles, Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Alexandrian Series in Illinois and Missouri];  used, $ 45

B 25 / Harman, J. A. / REPORT AND PLANS FOR RECLAMATION OF LANDS SUBJECT TO OVERFLOW IN THE EMBARRASS RIVER VALLEY, Urbana, 1913, cl, 61 pages, 28 appendix tables, 8 plates (in pocket), used, $ 10

B 43 / Savage / GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE LAHARPE, GOOD HOPE, MORRIS & KINGS QUADRANGLE; used, $ 60

B 49 / Knappen / GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE DIXON QUADRANGLE; new, $ 60

B 58 / Bastin / THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF HARDIN AND POPE COUNTIES; new, $ 100

B 59 / Hatmaker, P. and Davis, H. W. / THE FLUORSPAR INDUSTRY OF THE U.S. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY DISTRICT, Urbana, 1938, pb, 128 pages, 14 figs., 39 tables, used, $ 30


B 65, part I / Bretz / GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE CHICAGO REGION, Urbana. 1953, pb, 118 pages, 7 plates (1 in pocket), 91 figs., 1 table, new, $ 75

B 65, part II / Bretz / GEOLOGY OF THE CHICAGO REGION, PART II - THE PLEISTOCENE, Urbana, 1955, pb, 132 pages, 61 figs., 1 table, new, $ 75


B 65, part II addendum / set of 22 geologic maps of the Chicago Region, 1:25,000 scale, from the 1930-32 survey, actual size is 23.5" x 27.5", geologic map set includes the following quadrangles: 1. Wheeling, 2. Highland Park, 3. Arlington Heights, 4. Park Ridge, 5. Evanston, 6. Elmhurst, 7. River Forest, 8. Chicago Loop, 9. Hinsdale, 10. Berwyn, 11. Englewood, 12. Jackson Park, 13. Sag Bridge, 14. Pales Park, 15. Blue Island, 16. Calumet Lake, 17. Mokena, 18. Tinley Park, 19. Harvey, 20. Calumet City, 21. Brisbane, and 23. Steger (Quadrangle 22 either did not exist or was not included with the original set), mint condition, $ 100 [You can frame these - so you can show your friends what the area looked like in 1932]

B 68 / Weller / SYMPOSIUM ON DEVONIAN STRATIGRAPHY, PAPERS PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE ILLINOIS MINERAL INDUSTRIES CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER, 1940; used, $ 38


B 69 B / PAPERS ON INDUSTRIAL MINERALS PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE ILLINOIS MINERAL INDUSTRIES CONFERENCE, 1944, pb, 56 pages; new, $ 15

B 76 / Weller / GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF ILLINOIS; used, $ 100


Illinois State Geological Survey Reports of Investigation

RI 159 / Eveland, H. E. / PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF THE DANVILLE REGION, Urbana, 1952, pb, 32 pages, 14 figs., 1 table, - 2 -, $ 8

RI 168 / Voskuil, W. H. / ILLINOIS MINERAL INDUSTRY IN 1951 AND 1952, Urbana, 1953, pb, 52 pages, 17 figs., 39 tables, - 2 -, $ 10



lIlinois State Geological Survey Circulars

C 214 / Bradbury / GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE MAP OF THE NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ZINC-LEAD DISTRICT; new, $ 24; used, $ 18

C 231 / Busch / REFRACTION SEISMIC INVESTIGATIONS, ROSECLARE FLUORSPAR DISTRICT; used, $ 15

C 265 / Bradbury / BARITE IN THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR DISTRICT; used, $ 10

C 296 / Finger / ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR; used, $ 20

C 342 / Baxter / AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, PART 1 - SALINE MINES, CAVE IN ROCK, DEKOVEN, AND REPTON QUADRANGLES; used, $ 35

C 385 / Baxter / AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE ILLINOIS FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, PART 2 - KARBERS RIDGE AND ROSICLARE QUADRANGLES; used, $ 35

C 420 / Frye / FLOURSPAR IN ILLINOIS, 1968, used, $ 20

 
Guidebook Series

GS 8 / Smith, W. H., et.al. / DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN PARTS OF THE CARBONDALE FORMATION - WESTERN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS, Urbana, 1970, pb, 119 pages, - 3 -, $ 20


Illinois Miscellaneous Maps

Dickinson, C. G. / TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE CAVE IN ROCK FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, Urbana, 1935, - 5 -, $ 40


Illinois Miscellaneous Publications

B
iggs, D. L., Ed. / DNAG CENTENNIAL FIELD GUIDE VOLUME 3: North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Boulder, 1987, cl, 448 pages, - 1 -, $ 40

Crook, A. R. / AN ILLINOIS RECORD COPPER ERRATIC, Reprint from American Mineralogist, Volume 14, # 4, 1929, pages 119 - 124, 2 plates, 1 table, - 2 - or - 3 -, $ 6

Leighton, M. M. / GEOLOGIC LECTURES, THE MINERAL WEALTH OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, 1930, pb, 40 pages, - 5 -, $ 20 [What the Paleozoic Submergences did for the great Mid-West; Earth movements and the accumulation of oil and gas; Our inheritances from the Ice Age]

Melhorn, W. N. and Kempton, J. P. / G
EOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY OF THE TEAYS-MAHOME BEDROCK VALLEY SYSTEM, GSA SP 258, Boulder, 1991, afb, 128 pages, - 2 -, $ 35

Schneider, A. F. and Faser, G. S. / LATE QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE MICHIGAN BASIN, GSA SP 251, Boulder, 1990, pb, 123 pages, - 1 -, $ 35

Weller, S. / THE STORY OF THE GEOLOGIC MAKING OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Urbana, 1927, pb, 41 pages, - 5 -, $ 5


Rocks and Minerals Magazines

63(3) 1988 / Minerals and Fossils of Illinois, $ 15


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