etn 168 : THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA,

 

THICKNESS

_ IN Feet.
14. Gray, very calcareous, very sandy clay, or very argillaceous

BRN cee ee asin ae Rue pte Fi ee Ses 120- 130
15. Gray, medium-grained, very calcareous, glauconitic sand,

. with some fragments of gray, calcareous sand-rock, and
some small shell fragments. Driller’s description : rock. 180- 140.

Section of well at Masonboro Sound, 7 or 8 miles southeast of Wil-

mington, N. C., owned by W. L. Parsley, from samples furnished by
John D. Lowry, contractor:

; : THICKNESS
Pleistocene: as IN Fepr.

1. Medium-grained, clean, white MUOTTS SANE Son tel hates at JF
Eocene:

2-11. Alternating layers of gray, calcareous sand and white fos-
Siliferous limestone, containing numerous bryozoan re-

yA a aN are ME ia Pie ate alee ce GOES abv 6 «ese. 26-7166
Cretaceous (Peedee sand) (7) :

12. Coarse, gray, calcareous sand and rock (probably in al-
ternate | layers). Contains many fragments of shells,
probably for the most part Ostrea, and a few bryozoan
remains which may have fallen down from above....... 155- 165

18. { 2) (Not labeled) Similar to sample No. 12. A larger per- -

bE ; centage of loose sand. Occasional grains of glauconite.

(This sample is needed to complete the section, and it
probably belongs here) SUSAR

    
      

ss aa a C., in center of Cape Fear River estuary, prepared fr 0
sample retin aarp to the State Survey by the — in charge:

THICK:

        
    
   

: ee Pictaaneitie: Sample No. 4 is argillaceous. Sos el ae
Light bluish-gray, iron-stained coquina rock, consisting of

_ Shells in very fragmentary condition cemented with lime. 40- —
429. Loose ‘sand with — and fragments of shells ‘similar to :

 

 
  

  

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