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2. 2) 2 feet yellow-brown clay loam, with a few pebbles. 



1)4 feet gravel and coarse sand, well stratified. Some cobble stones. 

 Cretaceous. 



West of Elberon, the Cape May cover has a thickness of 12 

 feet at least in places, but this is probably above its average. 

 Such gravel as it contains is largely at its base, and as a forma- 

 tion it is ill defined. The whole situation here seems, to suggest 

 either ( 1 ) a filling by gravel wash behind a beach 30 to 40 feet 

 high (now chiefly east of the railway between Long Branch and 

 Manasquan), or (2) a gently sloping plain covered by wash 

 against which a beach was built. The material back from the 

 beach seems older than the beach itself, and this seems to favor 

 the second alternative. 



Half a mile west of Elberon, 6 to 10 feet of sand, gravel, and 

 loam overlie the basal remnant of Miocene. The Cape May 

 material is mostly well stratified, and not unlike that along the 

 coast farther north, where terrace forms were well developed. 



On the south side of Poplar Brook there are terraces at 30 to 

 ^.o feet which consist of glauconitic sand, 3 to 8 feet thick, 

 underlain by a little gravel, and this by Cretaceous marl. Be- 

 tween Poplar Brook and Deal Brook the underlying terrane 

 shifts from Cretaceous to Miocene, the base of the latter being 

 about 20 feet above sea level along Deal Creek, near the coast. 

 Between Poplar Brook and Deal Brook, the Cape May material 

 is poorly defined in most places, as over most of the area between 

 this point and Little Shrewsbury River. 



About Edgemere there are about 4 to 6 feet of material which 

 may be regarded as Cape May, overlying Eocene marl. 



Asbury Park stands on the modern beach deposits. On the 

 south shore of Deal Lake, the Eocene marl outcrops, and to the 

 westward it appears at higher and higher levels. It is covered 

 by scant deposits of gravel and sand, which thin westward as the 

 surface of the marl rises. 



At West Park, near the top of the 44-foot area, a remnant of 

 Miocene appears, its base having an altitude of about 25 feet, 

 and the surrounding lowland at the Cape May level is of this 

 formation, thinly covered with sand and loam, not older than 



