E. W. Berry — Pleistocene Flora of Alabama. 389 



Section. 



1 . Sandy clay about 5 feet 



2. Similar materials concealed by landslips " 15 " 



3. Sand with much gravel containing some pebbles of 



coal and rather angular bowlders of Paleozoic 



rocks up to 2 feet in diameter 7-10 " 



4. Massive, dark gray, finely micaceous, plastic clay with 



leaf impressions and overlain by a thin iron crust 0-3 " 



The following species were identified from this outcrop : 

 JBetula nigra, Popidus deltoides, Lirioclendron tulipifera, 

 Platanus occidentalism and Acer rubrum. 



Loccdity No. 1±. — This outcrop is on the right bank of the 

 Warrior River at Steeles Bluff, 311J miles above Mobile, and 

 is well illustrated by the following diagrammatical section 

 (fig. 2). 



Fig. 2. 



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Diagrammatical Section of the Cretaceous and Pleistocene at Locality No. 4. 



Section. 

 Pleistocene. 



1. Sandy clay about 5 feet 



2. Light colored massive clay and sand with lig- 



nitic layers in both the clay and the sand, 

 grading laterally, i. e. up the river, into the 

 next (No. 3) _/_ " 12 " 



3. Coarse yellowish sand with gravel and pebbles 



toward the base, lignitic at the base toward 

 the lower end 



4. Yellowish micaceous stratified sand with scat- 



tered small pebbles " 10 " 



5. Sandy argillaceous peat with fruits, seeds, and 



leaf impressions ... 10-12 " 



Upper Cretaceous (Tuscaloosa formation). 



b\ Blotched purplish, massive, somewhat sandy clay 



with iron crusts, much eroded 0-12 " 



7. Light gray, finely arkosic, slightly micaceous 



sand, argillaceous and compact in places 4-8 " 



