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Bright yellow and pink CHAS cinneils Seay pees ek ss Seat pe %

Dark, bluish or drab, sandy clay, becoming more sandy toward
base, contains impressions of fossil shells

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Light, coarse sand, mottled with WOMOW a/R oo oig amy usc n ea %
Concealed: by. Peachy sand. ..cts satya eter ke ies on SANA 1%
Dark to black clay and sand containing a large amount of brown
lignite in the form of twigs, limbs and trunks, ete. This layer
exposed “only-at. low. 106 fc. sani kis soe eee re 1

At one locality on Neuse River which is questionably referred to the
Chowan formation a large accumulation of fossil leaves, nuts, and
other plant remains has been preserved. Collections of these have been
studied by E. W. Berry.1 This deposit is believed to have been formed

near the head of an estuary. The details of this section are given
below: -

SECTION ON NEUSE RIVER, 793 MILES ABOVE NEW BERN AND ABOUT 4} MILES
ABOVE SEVEN SPRINGS, RIGHT BANK.

Pleistocene (Chowan formation?) ;

FEET.

Clay loam, grading down into sandy loam................0.se00- 4
Coarse white and yellow sand with gravel layers toward base;

some bowlders of crystalline rock in lower portion....:....... if
Tough blue clay with interstratified laminz and layers up to 2 or
3 inches in thickness consisting of masses of well-preserved
leaves with some lignitized wood, acorns, hickory nuts, beech

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The section is formed where the river cuts against the edge of a very
level stream-bordering terrace. On account of the lack of topographic
maps, it is impossible to determine with certainty the proper correla-
tion of this deposit, but the evidence seems to favor the interpretation
here adopted.

E. W. Berry refers to the above locality as Station 850, Neuse River.
He has identified the following forms: _

STATION 850, NEUSE RIVER.

Pinus rigida Mill (leaves). : Saliz sp., No. 2 (leaves).

Tarodium distichum (.) Rich (foli- Carpinus caroliniana Walt. (leaves).
age). : ere ae Betula nigra Linné (leaves).

Hicoria ovata (Mill) Britt (leaves Betula pseudofontinalis Berry (leaves).
and nuts). Fagus americana Sweet (leaves and

_ Hicoria glabra (Mill) Britt (leaves). fruit).

Hicoria aquatica (Michx. f.) Britt Quercus platanoides (Lam.) Sudw.?
(leaves). ; (leaves).
Salix sp., No. 1 (leaves). Quercus prinus Linné (leaves).

 

Your. of Geol., vol. 15, 1907, pp. 338-349,