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Iowa and Nebraska, 1867 (also contains loose material from Kansas and Missouri, n.d.)

by: Meek, F. B (Fielding Bradford) 1817-1876

Publication date: 1867

Topics: Paleontology, Geology, Icarian movement, Iowa, Nebraska, Peoria, White Breast Creek, Omaha, Nebraska City, Missouri River, Atchison, Saint Joseph, Missouri, Kansas, United States

Collection: biodiversity; sifieldbooks

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English

The field book documents Fielding Meek's work in Nebraska and Iowa, May 17 - July 14, 1867. Pages are numbered, and entries are dated. Includes details about weather; interactions with an Icarian community; daily activities; work with colleagues; terrain (including descriptions of bluffs); strata, formations, and characteristics of stone, sand, and clay; lists of fossils collected (per day); and cross sections. Locations are usually noted, though sometimes by the name of the property owner. There is a list of expenses in the back of the notebook for May 16 - July 27, 1867, and a list of elevations relating to the Central Division Union Pacific Railroad. Locations include the vicinity of Missouri River, Nebraska (Platte Valley, Omaha, Nebraska City), and Iowa (White Breast Creek, Peoria)

Abstract: The field book documents Fielding Meek's work in Nebraska and Iowa, May 17 - July 14, 1867. Pages are numbered, and entries are dated. Includes details about weather; interactions with an Icarian community; daily activities; work with colleagues; terrain (including descriptions of bluffs); strata, formations, and characteristics of stone, sand, and clay; lists of fossils collected (per day); and cross sections. Locations are usually noted, though sometimes by the name of the property owner. There is a list of expenses in the back of the notebook for May 16 - July 27, 1867, and a list of elevations relating to the Central Division Union Pacific Railroad. Locations include the vicinity of Missouri River, Nebraska (Platte Valley, Omaha, Nebraska City), and Iowa (White Breast Creek, Peoria).