Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas, for 1888, Vol. 1 of 4 The conception essential for the understanding of the geol ogy of the coal regions of Arkansas is of stratigraphy or the laws of arrangement of the layers of the rocks of a country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.