164 PHYSIOGRAPHY AXD GEOLOGY OF THE COASTAL PLAIX PROVINCE. 



Feet 

 YpUow weathered sandy marl carrying the 

 same fossils as the layer beneath and 



gradnally passing into it 5-8 



Greenish-blue compact sandy marl with 

 some clay, bearing numerous fossils, 

 among them Ostrea, Turritella, Cardiiiin, 

 Dosinia, Glycymeris, Panopea. Daitalium, 

 EcpJioia 12-15 



Total 37 



Indurated shell marl containing an abundant fauna in an excellent state 

 of preservation, is well exposed at and near Smithfield on Pagan Creek and 

 many important collections of fossils have been made at this place. 



IV. Section in marl pit near spring jvsf nortli. of Benn's Church. 



Feet 



Pleistocene Gray sandy loam 2 



Yellow sands with some argillaceous material 



toward base 3-6 



Unconformity. 



Miocene. Yorktown Thick bed of yellow calcareous marl com- 

 posed of comminuted shells of varying ' 

 degrees of fineness becoming coarser towiud 

 the base of the bed I -j 



Total 20 



V. Section in marl pit along stream one-quarter mile below Benn's Chtirch. 



Feet 



Miocene. Yorktown Yellowisli sand 4-6 



Yellowish nuirl similar to that desfribvd in 

 tlu' ])recpding section (i-S 



Total 14 



About % mile west from Benn's Church, near an abandoned mill dam 

 on a small creek similar indurated marl is exposed. 



VI. Section in S. G. Webb's marl pit one-quarter mile north of Chuckntud- 



on creetc about one-quarter mile below dam. 



Feet 

 Pleistocene Yellow sand 3-5 



Miocene. Yorktown Finely comminuted shells and small forms 



in matrix of horizontally stratified yellow 



sand .' 3 



Alternating layers of shells and sandy marl: 

 the following forms were noted: Pecten, 

 Dosinia, (ilyci/meris. Area. Tutriiella, and 

 Ephora quadricostata 5+ 



Tctal 13 



