The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology — John Shaqi
The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface GeologySalisbury, Rollin D.
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The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology
Salisbury, Rollin D.
Physical geography; Wisconsin -- Description and travel
At the Upper narrows of the Baraboo also (b, Plate II), evidence
of dynamic action is patent. Movement along bedding planes with
attendant development of quartz schist has occurred here as at the lake
(Plate IX). Besides the schistose belts, a wide zone of quartzite
exposed in the bluffs at this locality has been crushed into angular
fragments, and afterwards re-cemented by white quartz deposited from
solution by percolating waters (Plate X). This quartzite is said to be
brecciated. Within this zone there are spots where the fragments of
quartzite are so well rounded as to simulate water-worn pebbles. Their
forms appear to be the result of the wear of the fragments on one
another during the movements which followed the crushing. Conglomerate
originating in this way is _friction conglomerate_ or _Reibungsbreccia_.
The crushing of the rock in this zone probably took place while the beds
were being folded; but the brecciated quartzite formed by the
re-cementation of the fragments has itself been fractured and broken in
such a manner as to show that the formation has suffered at least one
dynamic movement since the development of the breccia. That these
movements were separated by a considerable interval of time is shown by
the fact that the re-cementation of the fragmental products of the first
movement preceded the second.
What has been said expresses the belief of geologists as to the origin
of quartzite and quartz schists; but because of popular misconception on
the point it may here be added that neither the changing of the
sandstone into quartzite, nor the subsequent transformation of the
quartzite to schist, was due primarily to heat. Heat was doubtless
generated in the mechanical action involved in these changes, but it was
subordinate in importance, as it was secondary in origin.
Igneous rock is associated with the quartzite at a few points. At g
and h, Plate II there are considerable masses of porphyry,
sustaining such relations to the quartzite as to indicate that they were
intruded into the sedimentary beds after the deposition of the latter.
[Illustration: WISCONSIN GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. BULLETIN NO. V.,
PL. IX.
A mass of quartzite _in situ_, in the road through the Upper Narrows
near Ableman's. The bedding, which is nearly vertical, is indicated by
the shading, while the secondary cleavage approaches horizontality.]
[Illustration: WISCONSIN GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. BULLETIN NO. V.,
PL. X.
Brecciated quartzite near Ablemans in the Upper Narrows. The darker
parts are quartzite, the lighter parts the cementing quartz.]
III. RELATIONS OF THE SANDSTONE OF THE PLAIN TO THE QUARTZITE OF THE
RIDGES.
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