GEOLOG Y OF SCOTT COUNTY. settlement of the county have added to the natural sections of gorges, scarps and hillside ledges, many artificial geological sections in mines, wells, quarries, and railway cuttings. It is not strange, therefore, that Scott county long since attracted the attention of geologists. In the course of the early surveys of the Mississippi valley made by David Dale Owen;' the geological areas of the county were roughly delineated, and fossils were described and figured from Davenport and Buffalo. The survey of Hall and Whitneyt describes accurately the "limestone of the Rapids of LeClaire," and devotes twelve or more pages to the discussion of the higher rocks of the county. Out of thirty-eight spAcies described by this survey from the Devonian, eighteen are listed from Scott county and six from the opposite bank of the Mississippi at Rock Island. Since that time the fossils of the county have been patiently collected and carefully prese. rved, as the fine cabinets of the Davenport Academy of Science, Rev. Dr. W. H. Barris and Mr. Asa Tiffany testify. Their rich fauna has been described by Barris, by Hall, by Worthen, by Meek, and by Lindahl. Aspects of the glacial deposits of the county have been treated by McGee,
Cultural geography might benefit from consideration of radical behaviourism and from interpretation and application of the concepts of behaviour analysis. The basic concept is that of operant conditioning, referring to the environment reinforcing behaviours that are most adaptive and effective in achieving reinforcers and avoiding aversive stimuli. The concept of rule-governed behaviour facilitates incorporation of cognition into behaviour analyses, accommodating the fact that many consequences are delayed. These concepts are applied in an analysis of nineteenth-century Mormon settlement in the American West. This argument for an objectivist approach is laden with social scientific baggage not favoured in contemporary cultural geography.
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