CONTENTS. 95 



Chapter V. — The Carboniferous Btrata — Continued. 



Coal Measures — Continued. Pago. 



Seekonk beds 173 



Seekonk conglomerate 174 



Beds north of the Tenmile River in Attleboro 17^ 



Contact of red and gray beds, with local unconformity 176 



Red shales 177 



Raindrop imprints 178 



Attleboro syncline 179 



Blake Hill fault block 180 



Fossils 181 



Coal 182 



Blake Hill thrust plane 183 



Dighton conglomerate group 184 



Extension of the Coal Measures uorth and east of Taunton 187 



Dedham quadrangle 187 



Mansfield area IS- 8 



Flora of Mansfield section 191 



Bridge water area 192 



Abington quadrangle 193 



Taunton quadrangle 195 



Red beds - 195 



Outcrops in Norton 195 



Winueconnet ledges 196 



Scolithus beds 197 



Taunton waterworks section 198 



Westville section 199 



Taunton River Valley 200 



Middleboro quadrangle 200 



Chapter VI. — Organic geology 202 



Insect fauna , 202 



Stratigraphic position of the fauna 203 



Odontopteris flora , 203 



List of plants identified by Lesquerens 204 



Coal beds 205 



Search for coal 207 



Thickness of the Carboniferous 208 



Acknowledgments 211 



Appendix.— Bibliography of the Cambrian and Carboniferous rocks of the Narragansett Basin. . 212 



