In 1922, a deep well was drilled for the City of Davenport by the McCarthy Well Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. The log of the well was a follows

Lindly, J. M.

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Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science Volume 34 Annual Issue Article 61 1927 Davenport's Deep Well J. M. Lindly Copyright ©1927 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias Recommended Citation Lindly, J. M. (1927) "Davenport's Deep Well," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 34(1), 247-247. Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol34/iss1/61 This Research is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa Academy of Science at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by an authorized editor of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact scholarworks@uni.edu. DAVENPORT'S DEEP WELL J.M. LINDLY In 1922, a deep well was drilled for the City of Davenport by the McCarthy Well Company of St. Paul, :Minnesota. The log of the well was a follows : --------=F--=.ORMATION THICKNESS DEPTH Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 28 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 400 Shale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 625 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 950 Shale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 970 Sandrock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 1150 Shale and rock.......................... 50 1200 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 1460 Sandrock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1471 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . 5 1476 Sandrock ............................ :. 56 1532 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 1752 Shale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • 16 1768 Shale and lime......................... 12 1780 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1785 Shale and lime. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 5 1790 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1798 Lime and Shale.. . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1808 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1817 Shale and lime......................... 4 1821 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 24 1845 Lime and Shale......................... 6 1851 Limerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 29 1880 Sandrock .......... : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . • . 25 1905 ----------~ W1NFIItLD, low A. SOME IOWA SANDSTONE ROBERT HENDRICKS AND NICHOLAS KNIGHT Some years ago Dr. William H. Norton discovered a sand-stone formation,1 about a third of a mile southeast of Lisbon in Linn County, Iowa. On the hillside it appeared as a small out-cropping of a soft, light colored or white sandstone, fine-grained, weathering to yellow. The rock contains a few nodules of greenish clay, and portions are so friable that people in the neighborhood used it for polish-1 Iowa Geological Survey, 1893. 247 1Lindly: Davenport's Deep WellPublished by UNI ScholarWorks, 1927

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