BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 7, pp. 399-422, PL. 18 MARCH 28, 1896 



CUSPATE FORELANDS 



BY F. P. GULLIVER 



{Read before the Society December ^7, 1895) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 400 



Summary 401 



Sea attack 401 



Sea transportation 402 



Current cusps 402 



Form 402 



Backset eddies 402 



Combinations of currents 403 



Consequences of theory 404 



Type , 406 



Offsets in the Carolinas 407 



Overlaps in the Carolinas 408 



Stream deflections in the Carolinas 408 



Hooked spit of Lookout 409 



Shoals off the three capes 409 



Theory confronted with fact 409 



Other examples 410 



Tidal cusps 411 



Location and description 41 1 



Type 411 



Tidal hypothesis 413 



V-bar stage 413 



Lagoon-marsh stage 414 



Filled stage 415 



Methods of growth 416 



Theory confronted with fact 417 



Delta cusps 417 



Introductory statement 417 



River versus current 418 



Theory of formation 418 



XLVII-BuLL. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 7, 1895. (399) 



