EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION PROGRAM

The Educational Extension Section of the Geological Survey conducts six field trips each year, in various parts of the state, for teachers, students, and laymen. It also assembles and distributes rock and mineral collections for Illinois educational groups, gives lectures, prepares exhibits, and identifies rocks and minerals for the public.

Educational Extension publications, such as this book, are simplified discussions of geological subjects. Available for 25 cents each, these include:

Educational Series 4: Guide for Beginning Fossil Hunters, by Charles W. Collinson. Educational Series 5: Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Illinois. Educational Series 6: Field Book of Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils of Illinois, by Charles Collinson and Romayne Skartvedt.

Many technical discussions of the various phases of Illinois geology also are published by the Geological Survey. Regional reports on the geology and mineral resources of some areas are available in many school and public libraries or they may be purchased from the Survey. Some of the regional reports include:

Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles, Bulletin 82, $1.00. Buda Quadrangle, Circular 275, no charge. Carlinville Quadrangle, Bulletin 77, $1.00 Chicago Region, Bulletin 65, Part 1, 50 cents. Marseilles, Ottawa, and Streator Quadrangles, Bulletin 66, $1.00.

“Mineral Production in Illinois in 1959,” Circular 300 (no charge), is one of a series of annual economic summaries. “Caves of Illinois,” Report of Investigations 215, price 50 cents, will be available by September 1961.


Illinois State Geological Survey Educational Series 7
24 pages, 1 plate, 12 figures, 1961

Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana Educational Series 7—Plate 1—North

Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana Educational Series 7—Plate 1—Central

Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana Educational Series 7—Plate 1—South

GEOLOGIC MAP OF ILLINOIS showing BEDROCK BELOW THE GLACIAL DRIFT 1961 KEY T Tertiary (Pliocene omitted) K Cretaceous P² Pennsylvanian (Above No. 6 Coal) P¹ Pennsylvanian (Below No. 6 Coal) P³ Pennsylvanian (Above No. 6 Coal) M² Mississippian (Upper) M¹ Mississippian (Middle and Lower) D Devonian SD Silurian and Devonian S Silurian O Ordovician C Cambrian F Fault OSDM Complex faulted area Physiographic base map by James A. Bier Price, 25 cents

PENNSYLVANIAN COAL-BEARING ROCKS