﻿II] 
  General 
  Geology 
  : 
  Cretaceous 
  55 
  

  

  Exogyra 
  costata, 
  Inoceramus 
  barabina 
  f 
  

  

  Gryphcea 
  vesicularis, 
  Legumen 
  planulatuni, 
  

  

  Ostrea 
  phimosa, 
  Linearia 
  77ieta 
  striata, 
  

  

  Ostrea 
  larva, 
  Avellana 
  bullata, 
  

  

  Pecte7i 
  burling 
  tonensi 
  s 
  , 
  Baculites 
  anceps, 
  

  

  Neithea 
  quinquecosta, 
  Heteroceras, 
  

  

  Crassatella 
  vadosa, 
  Ptychoceras. 
  

  

  A 
  second 
  outcrop 
  containing 
  poor 
  Cretaceous 
  fossils 
  was 
  seen 
  

   north 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  wells. 
  Near 
  the 
  southwestern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  

   shown 
  in 
  the 
  map 
  the 
  sandy 
  land 
  is 
  replaced 
  by 
  stiff 
  clay 
  land, 
  

   identical 
  with 
  the 
  stiff 
  Lower 
  Claiborne 
  land 
  further 
  north. 
  The 
  

   iron 
  concretions 
  which 
  occur 
  in 
  places 
  throughout 
  the 
  clay 
  

   contain 
  Venericardia 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  imperfectly 
  preserved 
  Gastropoda. 
  

  

  Section 
  j2, 
  14. 
  N., 
  7 
  W. 
  — 
  Found 
  by 
  recent 
  investigation 
  to 
  

   belong 
  to 
  the 
  Lower 
  Claiborne 
  stage, 
  which 
  see. 
  

  

  Head 
  of 
  Lake 
  Bisti?ieau. 
  — 
  The 
  old 
  works 
  here, 
  Hopkins 
  has 
  

   mapped 
  as 
  Cretaceous 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  supposed 
  connection 
  

   between 
  the 
  salt 
  beds 
  and 
  the 
  Cretaceous 
  series 
  ; 
  covered, 
  except 
  

   at 
  low 
  stages 
  of 
  water. 
  Recently 
  proven 
  Cretaceous 
  by 
  Vetach. 
  

  

  Price's 
  lick. 
  — 
  This 
  is 
  listed 
  by 
  Hopkins 
  and 
  Lerch 
  as 
  a 
  Creta- 
  

   ceous 
  outcrop 
  simply 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  presence 
  here 
  of 
  strong 
  

   saline 
  springs. 
  Location 
  : 
  S. 
  25, 
  13 
  N., 
  5 
  W. 
  

  

  " 
  Old 
  salt 
  2vorks.'" 
  — 
  This 
  is 
  represented 
  on 
  Hopkins' 
  map 
  as 
  

   being 
  in 
  S. 
  35, 
  13 
  N,, 
  6 
  W. 
  Nothing 
  definite 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  these 
  

   works. 
  

  

  Drake's 
  salt 
  works. 
  — 
  Section 
  21, 
  12 
  N., 
  5 
  W. 
  The 
  Licks, 
  

   according 
  to 
  Hilgard, 
  extend 
  along 
  Saline 
  bayou 
  for 
  one 
  and 
  

   one-half 
  miles, 
  "At 
  their 
  northern 
  end, 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  bank, 
  a 
  

   number 
  of 
  artesian 
  wells 
  have 
  been 
  bored 
  ; 
  one, 
  a 
  thousand 
  and 
  

   eleven 
  feet 
  deep, 
  and 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  sunk 
  in 
  uniform 
  lime- 
  

   stone 
  rock 
  all 
  the 
  way, 
  spouts 
  a 
  constant 
  stream 
  of 
  from 
  eighteen 
  

   to 
  twenty 
  gallons 
  of 
  salt-water 
  per 
  minute." 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  "Here, 
  

   as 
  elsewhere, 
  many 
  pits 
  were 
  dug 
  during 
  the 
  war, 
  fifteen 
  to 
  

   eigteen 
  feet 
  deep. 
  All 
  these 
  struck 
  the 
  laminated 
  clay, 
  or 
  " 
  soap- 
  

   stone 
  ; 
  ' 
  ' 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  rubbish 
  of 
  one 
  I 
  found 
  large 
  fragments 
  of 
  a 
  

   very 
  crystalline, 
  yellowish 
  limestone, 
  horizontally 
  banded 
  with 
  

   gray 
  ; 
  evidently 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  that 
  at 
  King's 
  and 
  Drake's." 
  

  

  There 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  limestone 
  passed 
  

  

  