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FOSSIL ESTHERLE. 



Black slate and iron-balls 



Hard sandstone 



Black slate, fire-clay, and iron-balls 



Black slate, beds of argillaceous iron, and balls 



Sandstone .. 



Black slate and iron-balls 



Sandstone 



Black slate and iron-balls 



Bituminous coal 



Black band 



Bituminous coal 



Black band 



Bituminous coal 



Black bitu minous slate and iron-balls 



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



Black band 



Coal 



Black band 



Black slate. 



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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. Estherice and Cypridce ; also a 



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



- W \ //. Grey sandstone, 300 — 500 feet. Plants, Saurian bones. 



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



■ ~ oc f 40 feet. 



Ep s {F. Conglomerate, including beds of sandstone j 



(There is probably an unconformity of the beds here.) 



E. Grey, thin-bedded sandstone, 1 often rippled. Fucoids. 1200 feet. 



1). Bituminous shales (Estherice and Ci/pridce), with calcareous shale, in their upper part, and 



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



Mytilus (?), Fishes, Reptiles, and Mammal (JDromatherium). 

 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. 

 A. Taconic slates. 



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



1 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 effloresces 

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

 time." (Page 96.) 



