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The Lower Cretaceous Deposits of Maryland 



LOCAL sections 



I. Section at " Red Hill," along the west slope of Oray^s Hill, Cecil County, 

 beginning at 200 feet above tide. 



Feet. 

 Cretaceous. fCoarse reddish sand and evenly-bedded dark brown 



Raritan ... J sandstone ledge 10 



" " 1 Yellow and buff sand and corrugated iron stone 10 



LTough white clay reddish in places 7 



Patapsco Massive variegated red and drab clay, the latter 



slightly lignitic and containing obscure leaf im- 

 pressions. Lenses of white, water-bearing sand near 

 base 130 



Patuxent . . . Sand, not exposed at surface, to tide level 43 



Total 200 



II. 



Pleistocene 



Recent . . 

 Cretaceous. 

 Raritan 



Patapsco 



Shannon Hill near Northeast, Cecil County. 



Feet. 



Loam and red clay 5-10 



Dense plastic chocolate colored clay with flakes of iron 



carbonate carrying leaf impressions 10 



Light colored sand 8 



Sandy chocolate colored clay 10 



Drab and light colored clay and sand grading into 



west member 8 



Chocolate clay, slightly lignitic 7 



Variegated clay 18 



White sand 1 



Variegated clay 35 



Yellow and purple sand and ferruginous sandstone. ... 5 



Total 112 



III. Section of Baltimore and Ohio Railway cutting at Foy's Hill, Cecil 

 County, beginning 270 feet above tide. 



Recent 



Cretaceous. 



Raritan 



Patapsco 



.Gravelly loam-" wash " 



Feet, 

 5 



'Fine white sand 11 



Brown loamy sand, more or less gravelly and arkosic 

 toward base 12 



White chinaware clay, more or less iron tinted, and 

 varicolored, at times grading horizontally and ver- 

 tically into micaceous sand and becoming gravelly 



. and arkosic toward the base 10-20 



.Very dense, richly variegated clay, to and below the 



track level 10-[- 



Total 58 



