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Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana

TOPOGRAPHY.

   The following is taken from the report of John Collet, State Geologist:

   "The topographical features of Warren County are agreeably varied. The
western and northern parts, embracing more than half its area, present a broad
stretch of Grand Prairie. The surface is undulating, or gently rolling, and
offers ample facilities for drainage, without any or but little waste lands;
while from the tops of any of the slight knolls or prairie ridges the eye is
delighted with miles of corn-fields, or leagues of blue grass pasture and meadow
land, diversified with island groves or their partings of timber. Adjoining the
prairie region to the south and east is a wide belt of high rolling or hilly
land, that descends gently to the abrupt bluffs which the Wabash and the creeks
that flow into it have cut down through the underlying coal measures,
conglomerate sand rocks, and deep into the subcarboniferous formation. The soil
of this belt is mostly yellowish clay, the decomposition of Silurian, Devonian
and sub-carboniferous lime rocks, imported by rivers anciently flowing at this
level. It is rich in tree food, and was originally clothed in a dense forest of
oak, hickory, ash, walnut, poplar, beech, maple and other large trees, beech and
sugar trees predominating on the reddish clay soils, and oak trees on drift
clays or sandy soils. The bluffs along the Wabash River and the principal creeks
are from eighty to 150 feet in height, and are of romantic boldness. The tops at
several stations are crowned with pines and cedars, and the sides are generally
curtained with living walls of conglomerate or subcarboniferous sand rocks.


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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