‘of the moraire are covered by a a Ubin wereer of wali. ne of these 
is on the Pocasset-Forestdale Road about a mile east of State high- 
way, Route 26, near the center-of.the Focasset quadrangle. HES 1e. 
roadside pit has teen excavated on the soutr-sice of the -road t 
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cure material «for. surfacing tennis courts. 
1939,.: the. pit-was free of slumped material, 
cal elite-face was available for study. E 
to.six inches thick, overlies 18 to 33 ine: 
till containing many stones four inches or 
subangular- blocks a foot or more ir Jexst! 
10 .feet of thinly-stratified silt or 
sticky..clay.. The clay is clearly a.lake- 
there within it are...a few, presumably 
pebbles... Its-use for surfacing. ternis from the f 
that. .it contains. just enough. clay to raze +. pind well ard just 
enough silt...to--be drained readily. ° sunk into the 
floor. of the pit continued in. +il1.for. t, then-entered a 
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zone,.Jess.than a foot thick, of thinly-lever t and clay vrest- 
ing on.sandy gravel. orsandy till, into which the euger could be driv- 
en to a-depth of only two feet. 
The layers in the upper 2. to 5 feet of 
been almost doutled over ‘on one another and 
the tops of which were apparently bevelled ot 
that laid the till above ane Some parts of 
frozen or compacted enough.to act &@s more ri 
slid past one another when subjected t 
ing ice. 
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& similar deposit of laminated -silt. and cley about 15 feet 
thick, overlain by sandy till, is exposed-in several shallow pits on 
“the north side of. Brick Kiln-Road, three quarters of a mile east of 
the State highway, Route 28, just within the western margin of the 
- Falmouth quadrangle. The aes are excavated ir irregular area of 
120. Coat above sealevele This. small 
kettle es of boulder-strewn tad. oe 
are. also twisted and broken beneath 
bouiders embedded in the o. The 
in 19359, were. bent .downward, conform 
as those above its upper surface w 
have teen rafted out on a small ice 
of the .pond in which the silts were 
-Silt. layers:in these pits and their r 
and beneath them must be essentially 
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flat,almost boulder-free land that. covers. atout 100 acres.and stards 
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_ the pit .on the Pocasset= -Forestdale HOGG fm auger hole.in t - 
‘tom of the pit went into five feet of clean, well-washed sand and 
fine gravel. Another hole 100 yards east of the nit wert through a 
ter-foot thickness.of the laminated silt ard then into about 2 feet 
of, rusty sande 
: Deposits such as these, consist 
and lake-bed materials, are precise 
cumulations one would expect to 
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