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city. Several of the stratigraphic type localities are near the city, 

 namely, Camillus, Manlius, Onondaga, Marcellus, Cardiff, Skane- 

 ateles, Tully and Salina. 



The soils in the vicinity of the city consist of mixed glacial clays, 

 sand and gravel on the upland, and muck, marl, alluvium, lacustrine 

 deposits, sand, gravel and boulder clay on the lowlands. 



The map shows the topography and the outcrop of the different 

 units in the sedimentary series. No attempt has been made to indi- 

 cate the different soils or the special glacial features. 1 



GEOLOGIC COLUMN OF THE SYRACUSE AREA 



Devonic 



Erian 



Ulsterian 



Oriskanian 



Helderbergian 



Ontaric 



or 

 Siluric 



Cayugan 



Niagaran 



14 Cardiff shale 

 13 Marcellus shale 



including Cherry Valley or 

 Agoniatites limestone 



12 Onondaga limestone 

 1 1 Oriskany sandstone 

 10 Coeymans ? limestone 



9 Manlius limestone 

 8 Rondout waterlime 

 7 Cobleskill dolomite 

 Salina beds 

 6 Bertie waterlime 

 5 Camillus shale 



including Fiddler's Green 

 limestone and gypsum 

 4 Vernon shale 

 3 Pittsford shale 

 2 Lockport limestone 

 1 Clinton beds 



including Rochester shale 



1 The soils are mapped and described in the Soil Survey of the Syracuse 

 Area, New York, by F. E. Bonsteel, William T. Carter jr, and O. L. Ayres 

 in the Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils 1903. Washington 1904. 



Certain glacial features, especially the east-west channels and the drumlins, 

 have been mapped and described by H. L. Fairchild in State Museum Bul- 

 letins in, 127 and 160. 



