SECTION OF THE SOUTH JOGGINS. 163 



(Gray sandstone and shale, with six underclays and ft. in. 

 erect SujiUaria at two levels ; also a thin shale 

 with Naiadites, Cijthere, C'alamites, and Cordaitis. 

 One of the sandstones has scales and teeth of a 

 large fish (? lUiizodus) and plants covered witli 



Spirorhis) 50 



' Gray argillaceous shale. 



Coal, 1 inch. 



Clay, 3 inches. 



Coal, 1 inch. 

 Coal-group 2 ^ Clay, 1 inch. 



Coal, 1 inch. 



Shale, 4 inches. 



Coal, 3 inches _ . .12 



Gray argillo-arenaceous uuderclay, Stitjmarla. 



The roof has numerous vegetable fragments and flattened 

 Sigillarice and Calamites. One of the coals contains mineral 

 charcoal, showing bast tissue, scalariform tissue, and fragments 

 of epidermis. The lower coal has bark of Sic/illaria^ Stic/maria, 

 and Cyperites, also numerous Trigonocarpa and vascular bundles 

 of ferns. The clay partings and the underclay have obscure 

 rootlets, probably of ^tigmaria. 



(Arenaceous underclay and shale with remains of 



Stigmaria ........ 4 



( Gray argillaceous shale. 



Coal-group 3 < 6'o«/, 3 inches . . . . . . .03 



(_ Hard argillo-arenaceous underclay, Stigmaria. 



The roof has stumps of S'lglllarm erect, and with roots of 

 Stigmaria descending among them from the bed above. The 

 coal, which is coarse and earthy, has vascular bundles of ferns, 

 scalariform vessels, bast tissue, and scales and spines of fishes 

 {Palceoniscus, etc.), with coprolitic matter. The underclay 

 shows abundant Stigmarian rootlets. 



(Underclay and gray arenaceous shale) . . .60 

 ' Gi'ay argillaceous shale. 

 Coal, 9 inches. 



Carbonaceous shale, 6 inches. 

 Coal, 1 inch. 

 Carbonaceous shale, 4 inches. 



Coal -group 4 -j Coal, 1 inch. 



Carbonaceous shale, 8 inches. 



Coal, 2 inches. 



Gray shale, 1 foot 7 inches. 



Coal, 8 inclies 4 10 



Argillo-arenticeous underclay, Stigmaria. 



The roof contains obscure flattened plants. The coal is hard 

 or shaly, with vascular bundles of ferns and bast tissue. The 

 carbonaceous shales yield Cordaifes borassifulia, Alethopteris 

 lunchitica^ Calamites^ S/gillaria, and Cyperitcs. The gray shale 



