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Chapter V. — The eastern shore of the bay — Continued. Pa e e - 



Coarse conglomerate series along the east shore of Sakonnet River 278 



High Hill Point 278 



Fogland Point 278 



Exposures -west of Nonquit Pond 279 



Exposures between Tiverton Four Corners and the northeast side of Nannaquacket 



Pond - 280 



Little G'oinpton shales 281 



Chapter VI. — Aquidneck, or the Island of Rhode Island, with the islands of Newport Harbor.. 284 



Arkose and pre-Carboniferous rocks on Sachuest Neck 284 



Arkose 284 



Pre-Carboniferous rocks 286 



Eastern shore of Aquidneck Island as far south as the second cove northwest of Black 



Point 288 



Coarse conglomerates and underlying sandstone series from Black Point to the north end 



of Smiths Beach 290 



Coarse conglomerates and underlying rocks on the neck at Eastons Point 294 



Paradise coarse conglomerates 295 



Paradise rocks - - 295 



The Hanging Rocks 298 



Pre-Caibouiferous area - 300 



Isolated conglomerate exposures near Eastons Pond and northward 303 



Miantonomy Hill and Coasters Harbor Island conglomerates 304 



Miantonomy Hill 304 



Beacon Hill 304 



Field exposures of coarse conglomerates 304 



Coddington Neck 305 



Bishop Rock 305 



Coasters Harbor Island 



Newport Harbor Islands 307 



Gull Rocks 307 



Rose Island 308 



Conanicut Island 308 



Line of separation between Carboniferous and pre-Carboniferous rocks 308 



Goat Island and Little Lime Rock 309 



Fort Greene 309 



Morton Park and southward 309 



Northeast lines of possible faulting 310 



Carboniferous rocks along the Newport Cliffs 310 



Newport Neck and southern cliff rocks 314 



Greenish igneous rock in the cliffs southwest of Sheep Point 314 



Granite area at the south end of the cliffs , 315 



Granite area on eastern Newport Neck 316 



Greenish and purplish argillitiu rock of middle Newport Neck 316 



Pre- Carboniferous green and purple shales of western Newport Neck 316 



Shale series from Coddington Cove to Lawtons Valley 319 



Greenish-blue shales of Slate Hill and southward 320 



Shale series north of Lawtons Valley 320 



Shore exposures north of Coggeshall Point 320 



Portsmouth mine and northeastward 321 



Line of exposures three-eighths of a mile west of the Newport road 326 



Shale series at Butts Hill 327 



Green shales and conglomerates of the northern syncline 327 



Green shales along the western Newport road 327 



Portsmouth conglomerates 328 



Relations to Slate Hill shales 329 



