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AN AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL RAILWAY GUIDE. (X. C.) 



North Carolina. 1 



Wilmington and Weldon R. R, 162 miles ; N. and S. This road runs throughout its 

 whole length from Wilmington to Weldon on the (20) Quaternary formation, with 

 occasional small exposures of the Tertiary (19 a.) Eocene and (19 b.) Miocene and 

 of the (18) Cretaceous in the banks of the streams. 



Atlantic and North Carolina R. R. 95 miles ; E. and W. From Morehead to Golds- 

 boro, 95 miles; also on (20) Quaternary, with (19) Tertiary and (18) Cretaceous in 

 the banks of the streams. 



1. Revised and the notes added by W. C. Kerr, State Geologist of N. C. 



2. At Hillsboro depot a good exposure of typical N. Carolina Huronian slate, hydromicaceous. 



3. At Morrisville depot a dike of dolerite visible. Ifc miles east of station beds of very coarse 

 incompacted conglomerate, the bottom beds of the Triassic, and probably glacial. 



4. On both sides of the Pedee River are high dikes of dolerite for more than a mile, and 2 miles 

 east a very coarse porphyruic granite, as well as between Lilesville and Wadesboro. 



5. * rom Statesville west in the numerous deep cuts are seen fine examples of the frost drift, 

 cbaracteristic of sub-glacial regions. Also from Hickory to Morgantown many sections of the 

 purple paragonite schists, which are peculiar to this region. 



