1505.01 Division of geological survey. - Ohio Statutes

1505.01 Division of geological survey.

The division of geological survey:

(A) Shall collect, study, and interpret all available information pertaining to the geomorphology, stratigraphy, paleontology, mineralogy, and geologic structure of the state and shall publish reports on the same;

(B) Shall collect, study, and interpret all available data pertaining to the origin, distribution, extent, use, and valuation of mineralogical and geological raw materials and natural resources such as: clays, coals, building stones, gypsum, limestones and shales for cement and other uses, petroleum gas, brines, saline deposits, molding sands, and other natural substances of use and value, excluding only those pertaining to water usable as such for agricultural, industrial, commercial, and domestic purposes, but not excluding other rock fluids such as natural and artificial brines and oil-well fluids;

(C) Shall make special studies and reports of resources of geological nature within the state which in its discretion are of current or potential economic or educational significance;

(D) May examine the technological processes by which mining, quarrying, or other extracting processes may be improved, or by which materials now uneconomical to exploit may be extracted and used commercially for the public welfare;

(E) Shall make, store, and have available for distribution maps, diagrams, profiles, and geologic sections portraying the geological characteristics and topography of the state, both of general nature and of specific localities;

(F) May, or at the request of other agencies of the state government shall, advise and consult with representatives of those agencies on problems of geological nature.

Effective Date: 10-01-1953