206 THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA.

SECTION AT MADDRY’S BLUFF, 1} MILES BELOW MURFREESBORO, RIGHT BANK
: OF MEHERRIN RIVER.
Pleistocene: }

Buff sand, somewhat loamy at top and containing a few pebbles
toward base

Fret.

Miocene (St. Marys) :

~ Brown to blue sand, filled with specimens of Mulinia congesta.
Certain bands are composed almost entirely of these shells
Drab clay with few fossils, some gypsum crystals. .
Shell marl, great variety of shells in blue sandy elay pe s, iy

At Whiteley’s Bluff, about 3 miles below Murfreesboro, left bank of
Meherrin River, bh seeepene ae here: abot 3 tom: ‘above