90 FOSSIL ESTHERIiE. 



Ft. in. 



Black slate and iron-balls 2 2 



Hard sandstone 1 



Black slate, fire-clay, and iron-balls 34 



Black slate, beds of argillaceous iron, and balls 48 



Sandstone 1 10 



Black slate and iron-balls 1 4 



Sandstone 3 



Black slate and iron-balls 9 



Bituminous coal 3 6 



Black band 1 3 



Bituminous coal 7 



Black band 1 13 



Bituminous coal 7 



Black bituminous slate and iron-balls 8 



Grey sandstone [saline, see Emmons, ' Amer. Geol.,' part vi, p. 96] and fire-clay... 16 



Black band 1 3 



Coal 1 



Black band 1 3 



Black slate. 



6. The North and South Carolina tract, from Orange to Anson, on the Deep River. 

 The following is the section. 



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I. Red and mottled sandstones, slates, and marls, 1000 feet. JEstherice and Cypridce ; also a 



Eish-scale (in a Coprolite)v Saurian bones, and a Bird-bone. 



H. Grey sandstone, 300 — 500 feet. Plants, Saurian bones. 



G. Blue shale. Cvcads, and other Plants ") ^„ „ 



' 40 feet. 



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'' E. Grey, thin-bedded sandstone,^ often rippled. Fucoids. 1200 feet. 

 B. Bituminous shales {Estherice and Cypridce), with calcareous shale, in their upper part, and 





comprising coal-seams and iron-stones, 700 feet. Plants, Entomostraca, Astarte (?), 

 Mytilus (?), Fishe?, Eeptiles, and Mammal (Tiromatheriuin) . 

 C. Bituminous slate, alternating with grey sandstone, and passing downwards into red and 



brown sandstone (Coniferous Trees and Fucoids), 1000 — 3000 feet. 

 B. Conglomerate, 50 — 60 feet. 

 O ^^ A. Taconic slates. 



Looking at these sections (and including that of the northernmost of the areas, as seen 



^ In speaking of this sandstone. Prof. Emmons says : " When the rocks are bare in dry weather during 

 the summer they are incrusted with a salt which consists mostly of the chloride of sodium. So also the 

 sandstones from the Egypt Pit, at the depth of 450 feet, decompose, and a nearly pure salt efHoresces 

 upon the surface while this process is going on, yet no gypsum has been found in this series up to this 

 time." (Page 96.) 



