FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 



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VaLkenburg's Creek and the adjacent country, and thus far the 

 sections are the same, but above this horizon the channel section 

 and the upland, or country, section are totally unlike and will 

 be described separately. 



THE SECTION OF THE CREEK BOTTOMS 



This is the section described by Dr. Sellards. It is now well 

 exposed in the walls of the drainage canal which, for several hundred 



Fig. 3. — The drainage canal, looking southwest from the Florida East Coast 

 Railroad bridge to the spillway. 



yards, cuts through the deposits of the old creek bottoms. Resting 

 upon the eroded surface of formation No. 1, sometimes lying 

 directly upon the coquina rock, sometimes resting upon the beach 

 sand, or shore phase of No. 1, is Dr. Sellard's formation No. 2. 

 It is, as he has described it, a cross-bedded, river-washed sand, 

 partly white, partly stained brown by organic matter, and contain- 

 ing partially decayed wood and muck. At the top, in places, 

 there is a fresh-water, clayey marl. This formation contains 

 human bones essentially in situ, beyond reasonable doubt, together 



