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SOME LIME-BURNING DOLOMITES DOLOMITIC BUILDING STONES FROM THE NIAGARA OF IOWA. BY GILBERT L.HOUSER. SOME LIME-BURNING DOLOMITES AND DOLOMITIC BUILDING STONES FROM THE NIAGARA OF IOWA. BY GILBERT L. HOUSER. The manufacture of lime and the quarrying of build- ing stone form an important industry in portions of east- ern Iowa. The rooks used belong chiefly to the Devonian and Silurian systems. These rocks contain a variable amount of magnesia, the calcinm carbonate being often replaced by magnesium carbonate to the extent of one- half of its bulk, aud thus partake of the character of true magnesian limestone or dolomite. The dolomites receiv- ing especial lIttention in this place are exposed in portions of Cedar, Scott and Clinton counties. The field explored covers all of the natural exposures sonth of and including township nnmber 80. In these preliminary notes are given the geological observations on the upper portions of the Niagara, the chief economic uses of the formation and some information concerning the present connected industries. The limestone is everywhere very hard and compact, breaking with splintery fracture and seldom showing any tendency to split np into thin laminm. Some of the layers are very fine-grained, resembling some of the lithographic stones in texture; but the greater portion is hard and somewhat crystalline, presenting a glittering surface when 200 NIAGARA LU