PLEISTOCENE FORMATIONS OF SANKATY HEAD 721 



mica scales; occasional small pebbles up to 6 mm ; black specks 

 numerous in the finer streaks; rarely a small shell fragment. 



The general appearance of the section toward the latter part of 

 the work is presented in Figs. 6 and 7. A close view of the fossilif- 

 erous beds is shown in Figs. 8 and 9. No. 8, with the serpula bed 

 above, is shown in Fig. 8, while the beds above, including the lower 

 part of the white drift sands, appear in Fig. 9. 



Fig. 7 



The upper beds will be referred to now somewhat more collectively, 

 and their more general features described. 



No. 10 seems to present some transitorial features from the serpula 

 bed below, while Nos. n, 12, 13, 14, and 15 have frequently been 

 classed together as the "upper shell bed," although the last has 

 received the special name of the "fragment bed." 



In the section exposed, No. 15 seems hardly to be separated as a 

 distinct bed from the bed below, there being no sudden change of 

 character. The shells and shell fragments of No. 14 were found to 



