CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Page 



Interest Attaching to Pleistocene 5 



Field Work . . . . ; .. . . .: 6 



Scope of Paper . .,..*. 8 



Acknowledgments 10 



CHAPTER I. 

 HISTORICAL REVIEW. 



General Statements Concerning Early Workers 10 



Work of Vanuxem, Catesby, and Bartram n 



Work of Conrad and Lyell 1 1 



Ruffin, Various Divisions of the Coastal Plain 12 



Tuomey, Divisions into Cretaceous, Eocene, Pliocene and 



Post-Pliocene 13 



F. S. Holmes, Work on the Pleistocene 17 



The Phosphate Problem and Shepherd, Holmes and Shaler . 19 



Recent Workers and their Work 19 



CHAPTER II. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE PLEISTOCENE 

 OF THE COASTAL PLAIN. 



General Remarks . '. v '. * .' -. : .. . :...: . . ' .* ' . 20 



Maine ' . .... . .*-. , , .... 22 



New Hampshire and Massachusetts . > . .... . . 22 



Rhode Island and Connecticut . . ... ... . . . 23 



New York . ..... ... . . . . . . 23 



New Jersey . . . ..... . . . ., .... 24 



Pennsylvania and Delaware. . "+ 25 



Maryland 25 



Virginia 27 



North and South Carolina 28 



Georgia and Florida 29 



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