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had. These sections have been given more as a matter of historic 

 interest than anything else. 



VII. Bee's Ferry, Ashley River. 

 Here a section shows: 



Fine, loose sands 15 to 20 feet 



Fossiliferous bed, sands and shells, well preserved 3 feet 



Fine laminated clay, resting on blue mud with layers of 



sand between laminea, containing Mactra 6 inches 



The top of the fossiliferous strata is about at high-water mark. 

 This exposure is about 200 yards long, and from it Tuomey collected 

 twenty-six species common to the Pleistocene elsewhere in the State. 



VIII. Charleston. 



A section from the wells in the city shows the following order of 

 strata : 



Loose sand, below which water is found 5 to 6 feet 



Quick sand and clay, with occasional remains of trees ... 9 feet 



Sand and small shells I foot 



Gravel and oyster shells 2 feet 



Fine, close clay and young oyster shells 3 feet 



Fluff clay, with scales of mica 20 feet 



Continuing this from the report of the special committee on the 



artesian well, Charleston, we have, after a break : 



Pliocene deposit with Tellina, Area, etc from 65 to 100 feet 



Tertiary, Venus, Tellina, phosphate nodules. . .from 80 to 100 feet 



Tertiary, phosphate nodules, oyster shell brec- 

 cia from 350 to 430 feet 



Cretaceous fossils, varying with depth from 600 to 1,955 feet 



IX. Stono River. 



The section here, according to Dr. Glenn, is : 



Sands, mostly loose, light-colored near surface from veg- 

 etable matter, but in middle and lower parts varying 

 from light cream color to red 8 to 14 feet 



Pleistocene fossils in white or light gray sand with little 



mud and with some loose nodules of phosphate rock . . 3 to 4 feet 



Nodular phosphate rock overlying Tertiary marls. Shells 

 well preserved in the beds, which were being removed 

 to get at the phosphate rock beneath o to 4 feet 



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