142 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1890. 



These beds are probably the same as the Pliocene shell out- 

 crops at Shiloh and Jericho near Bridgetou, N. J. The lower of the 

 two fossil horizons within this section showing some of the rarer forms 

 found at these localities. The species found here will be again re- 

 ferred to in connection with those from greater depth. 



F — The next interval of 83 feet is occupied by sands, the upper 

 73 feet being reddish-brown in color and much like those above the 

 diatom beds and the lower 13 feet being a gray micaceous quicksand. 



G — Between 844 to 955 feet are included a clay and a marl bed 

 as follows : 



844 to 905. Fossil {^^^^■^"^^^?°^'^*^"^'^y' | ... 61 

 i a fesv fossils at 875 feet. ) 



r Green marl ; lower 2 feet a bed of pon-"^ 

 905 to 955. Fossil < derous oysters so broken by the drill ^ . 55 

 C as to be undeterminable as to species. ) 

 H — The next section from 955 to 1095 feet covers 140 feet of pecu- 

 liar greenish-yellow sands with many streaks of loam of the same 

 color. It contains barnacles throughout, indicating a shallow sea. 

 This was further corroborated by a few shallow water mollusks at 

 about 1000 feet. 



I — From 1095 to 1225 a series of 130 feet includes two marl beds 

 and is best described thus : 



1095 to 1126, { Dark greenish-gray clay ; j ^ ^ 3^ 



( abundance of foraminitera. j 



1126 to 1146, Dark green marl. 20 



1146 to 1170, Dark green marly clays 24 



1170 to 1225, Fossil, | ^^^^ ^^^'^^ S'^^" ""'^'^ ' ^''"''^'^'' ] 55 

 L granulata ?it IISO feet. ) 



From this point downward, as far as the boring continued, to 1,400 

 feet or thereabout, is one continuous bed of tough clay, light to dark 

 slate in color and containing multitudes of foraminifera especially 

 in the lighter colored clays. 



There are also from this bed a few mollusks and quite a number 

 of specimens of deep sea corals belonging to the genus Flaeocyathus 

 very similar to an undescribed form from the Miocene deposits of 

 San Domingo and now in the Academy's collection. 



The life forms of this division indicate a deepening sea. The fora- 

 minifera very closely resemble species described in 1846, by 

 d'Orbigny from the Miocene clays around Vienna. 



