Geology Publications:  Bulletins

A stratigraphic and economic geology report of the county; results of the tests of the minerals – especially on the Porters Creek clay, which was tested for use as lightweight aggregate for concrete.

LAUDERDALE COUNTY MINERAL RESOURCES

A report on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the outcropping Upper Cretaceous beds in Mississippi.

A report on the purely scientific stratigraphic study of the county that led to the discovery of the Tinsley Dome, eventually to the drilling of the first commercial oil well in the state, and a report on the tests of the clays.

A field report on the stratigraphy and mineral resources of the county and the fitness of these mineral, especially clays, for certain uses.

An educational bulletin on the last remaining Gulf Coast natural bayou; the importance it and its plants and animal life in the natural state; and the excellence of the bayou as a site for a marine laboratory.

The history of the Jackson gas field is especially interesting because Eugene W. Hilgard recognized and described the dome in 1860 at the same time that Colonel Drake was drilling the oil well in the world on Oil Creek in Pennsylvania. The report also describes in detail the beds penetrated in the deep test well.

An educational park bulletin giving the ancient and recent geologic history of an area modified by landslides.

A report emphasizing the importance of recognizing a residual blanket.

A geologic history of the park in Lee County near Tupelo.