{"id":1180,"date":"2011-01-03T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-09-13T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:04:31","slug":"iowa-geological-survey-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/01\/03\/iowa-geological-survey-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Geological Survey now online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries has recently posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/igsar\/all_issues.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Iowa Geological Survey Annual Report<\/span> <\/a>(1893-1941) online.\u00a0 The annual reports contain information on the topography and geological formations of all of Iowa\u2019s counties, assessments of Iowa\u2019s mineral resources, and reports on Iowa\u2019s water resources.\u00a0 Whether being used to grow crops in the field, livestock in the pasture, or to harvest minerals from the ground, the physical environment of Iowa has been the lifeblood of Iowa\u2019s economy. \u00a0These reports were the first detailed, organized reports on the geology and natural history of Iowa and sometimes included other information like the plant species of the time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We anticipate this material will be most useful to educators and other individuals in Iowa and surrounding states.\u00a0 This digital collection features the full volumes, complete with scans of both the color and the oversized plates.\u00a0 Some images in this publication may be of lower quality, but there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/calvin\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">collection of exceptional photographs<\/a> of many parts of Iowa by one of IGSAR\u2019s frequent authors (and former State Geologist), Samuel Calvin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Melanie Allsup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries has recently posted the Iowa Geological Survey Annual Report (1893-1941) online.\u00a0 The annual reports contain information on the topography and geological formations of all of Iowa\u2019s counties, assessments of Iowa\u2019s mineral resources, and reports on Iowa\u2019s water resources.\u00a0 Whether being used to grow crops in the field, livestock in the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/01\/03\/iowa-geological-survey-now-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Iowa Geological Survey now online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}