arrangement of superficial earthy material. Bian 
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source of the jointed, rhom- 
boidal quartz fragments which are scattered along the floor of 
the deposit toward the right hand end of the diagram, a dis- 
tance of one to several rods. 
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county, near the Peedee river. In this case a large quartz 
vein in a chloritic argillaceous slate has been broken down 
by the denudation which the 
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Fig. 16 represents the first 
Stages of movement across a ‘ 
small vein. This is a quartz vein seen in section in a gold mine 
on the slopes of the South Mountains, near Brindletown. The 
thin-bedded, soft, decomposed mica schists are pmgieaenes <4 
numerous small veins and seams of a granular (saccharoidal) 
quartz, varying from a usual thickness of one to three inches 
(occasionally four to six) down to a mere line. These thin 
