PLEISTOCENE FORMATIONS OF SANKATY HEAD 715 



beds from the base of the bluff to the top of the fossiliferous deposits, 

 and especially on the latter. 



LOCATIONS 



These Sankaty Head deposits have often proved somewhat dim- 

 cult to locate on account of the depth of talus which now covers the 

 face of the bluff. Professor F. J. H. Merrill 1 reports them as occurring 



Fig. 2 



"at a point about three hundred yards south of the lighthouse," and 

 Dr. Arthur Hollick 2 refers to their position as "about a quarter of 

 a mile south" of that structure. It is possible that they extend for 

 some distance along the bluff, appearing at lower and lower levels 

 toward the south, on account of the dip. 



The section 3 exposed by the writer was found to be roughly 375 

 yards south of the lighthouse tower, measured along the top of the 

 bluff. The section is shown in Fig. 4, and described below. 



1 Transactions 0} the New York Academy of Science, Vol. XV (1895-96), p. 11. 



2 Ibid., p. 8. 



3 The fossiliferous beds were located in advance by Miss Elizabeth S. Kite. 



