Warren County IN Archives History - Books .....Sandstone 1883
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Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana

SANDSTONE.

    "Conglomerate sand rock, resting on subcarboniferous groups of rock,
containing coal plants and dark pyritous clay, is of irregular formation. Upon
exposure to the air, it decomposes, washes away, and gives origin to caves,
cascades and rock houses, so common in Kentucky. It is often accompanied by a
thin seam of coal. In Warren County, no coal was found more than two inches
thick and a single band of black slate at Munson's old mill on Little Pine.

   "In the northwestern portion of the county, outliers of conglomerate rock are
found capping the highest tables, as at Black Rock and near Green Hill; also at
Point of Rocks, below Rainsville, and Island Rock, in Mud Pine. It extends to
the west with a slight dip to the west bank of Pine Creek, where the dip
suddenly increases at the rate of twenty to thirty feet per mile. Southerly
along the line of strike, Pine Creek flows in a deep valley, generally walled by
bold mural escarpments or overhanging cliffs of massive sand rock, crowned with
evergreen pines, cedars and juniper trees, combining scenery at once grand, wild
and beautiful. The valley is from 150 to 200 feet deep, and the narrow margin of
alluvial soil was originally covered with a tangled mass of thorny brush, briers
and vines. These features made Pine Creek a strong line of defense in Indian
warfare, well suited to their strategy, and in the campaign of 1811, the
confederate tribes planned to fight here with Gen. Harrison. The gallant
General, by a quick march to the left flank, crossed higher up to the open
prairie, and ended the war by the brilliant victory of Tippecanoe. The
conglomerate is well developed at Williamsport, on the Kickapoo, and in the
bluffs near the mouth of Red Wood. This formation consists of massive, variously
colored sandstone, and rarely presents the typical character from which the name
is derived, but near the mouth of Kickapoo, at Black Rock and at Thompson's
quarry, near Green Hill, specimens are found full of pebbles. These stones are
easily quarried, freely cut, but harden upon exposure, making choice material
for building purposes.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

PART II.
HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
Geology and Settlement

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COUNTIES OF 
Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton,
INDIANA

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1883.


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