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The Upper Cretaceous Deposits of Maryland 



V. Section southwest side Maulden Mountain (Gillers Hole), Elk Neck. 



Pleistocene. 

 Lafayette. 



Cretaceous. 



Matawan. 



Magothy. 



fClay loam 



\_ Pebble conglomerate and loose pebbles. 



Feet. 



8-10 

 l%-2 



Raritan. . 



Fine greenish gray sand with finely disseminated 

 glauconite 



More grayish glauconitic sand, quite micaceous 

 with small pockets of glauconite and some iron 

 concretions 



Persistent layer of ironstone 



I Gray iron mottled sand less glauconitic, micaceous 



Very fine ash-colored micaceous sand with thin 

 lenses and small pellets of white and yellow clay 

 and pellets of coarse yellow sand, the whole be- 

 coming argillaceous toward the base 



Mottled yellow and white arenaceous clay with 

 small iron carbonate concretions, passing insen- 

 sibly into next member 



Finely laminated yellow, gray, salmon and white 

 crass-bedded fine sand with iron concretions and 

 numerous pellets and lenses of clay in places... 



Drab sandy micaceous clay with comminuted lignite 



Layer of loose, small white quartz pebbles 



Mottled yellow and white (some blotches of red) 

 clay 



Ironstone band 



Fine white sand with some layers of slightly in- 

 durated yellow sand 



Buff sand of same character, centrally dark and 

 lighter above and below 



Similar white sand 



Yellow sand with clay pellets, firmly indurated in 

 , -! places 



Cross-bedded yellow, buff and pink sand 



Red and yellow sands with ledges of ironstone and 

 in places with loose gravel of angular quartz 

 pebbles 



Finely laminated somewhat sandy white plastic clay 



Talus covered slope 



Loose yellow sand with pink blotches alternating 

 with white clay. The sand indurated in places 

 and containing ironstone 



5% 



15 

 10 



10 



6 

 5% 



y 2 

 ii 



13 



11 

 4 



4 

 5 



10 



5 



25 



27 



Patapsco Compact drab clay with lignite, to tide. 



Total 195y 2 



VI. Section south side of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 1 mile east of Pivot 



Bridge, between Mileposts 61 and 68. 

 Pleistocene. Feet. 



Talbot Somewhat disturbed brownish -yellow to gray sandy 



loam with bands of pebbles and cobbles at base 8 



Cretaceous. 



Dark greenish-black micaceous glauconitic sand with 

 small pockets consisting almost entirely of glauconite 

 decidedly green in color. Thin discontinuous band 



of small subangular quartz pebbles at base 3 



Irregular contact. 



Matawan. . 



