FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 



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a) Brown sand gradually losing its dark stain and passing downward 

 into a reddish-brown sand stained by iron oxide, and finally grading 

 into a buff sand below, which is of finer grain than that above, and 

 may possibly be marine 3-4 ft. 



There is no sharp division between (a) and (&). 

 For at least another half-mile west the section changes in no 

 essential feature except that the wind-blown sand (d) gradually 



Fig. 5. — The creek section on south bank of drainage canal, 465-70 feet from the 

 bridge. This face, now dug back many feet from the original drainage canal bank, 

 is approximately the spot where the second human skeleton was found in formation 

 No. 2 (marked N on map, Fig. 2). Formations Nos. 2 and 3 displayed. 



thins until, at one mile from the spillway, there are barely two 

 feet of it. The coquina rock does not appear above the water- 

 level in the canal during the first mile west of the spillway, though 

 it is said to reappear some distance farther west. 



INTERPRETATION OF THE UPLAND SECTION 



Following the deposition of the marine coquina beds, semi- 

 marine, semi- terrestrial beach sands, and, later, eolian sands 

 accumulated to a thickness of perhaps 6-8 feet over much of the 



