DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS 27 



B. 



Surface of wash plain. 



About 100 feet sediments, not exposed (sand?). 



Varve silt and sand, varves 6306-6321. Thicknesses varying 



from 3 inches to iK feet. The lowest varve measured 5 



feet above the river. 



Series measured: (6306-6321). 



C. 



Surface of wash plain. 



100 feet sediments, not exposed (sand ?). 



Varve silt, varves 6267-6303. Average thickness 2% inches. 



3 feet talus down to river level. 



Series measured: (6267-6303). 



58.— 10 miles NNW of Concord, clay pit at the schoolhouse 

 y^ mile NW of Canterbury station. 



Cut in the upper part of silty sediments. Thickness of varves 

 varying from 1 to 9 inches. 



Series measured : (6265-6312). 



59. — 11 miles NNW of Concord, 2 miles N of Boscawen, railroad 

 cut. 



3 feet sand. 



2 % feet sandy varve silt. 



Characteristic clay, somewhat silty, varves 6003-6232. 

 Varve sand and silt, varves 5989-6004. Varve 5989 more 

 than 2% feet thick, the others varying from 3 to 10 inches. 

 25 feet talus ending at the stony bottom of a brook. 



Series measured: 6025-6232, (5989-6024, 6233-6255). 



60. — Franklin, N. H., clay pit at the northwestern edge of the 

 village, near the underpass of the Mascoma road. 

 3 feet varve silt with lenses, not measured. 

 Silt. The topmost varve 3 feet, the lowest 1 foot 2 inches and 



the rest from 1 inch to 1 foot in thickness. 

 Depth to bottom unknown. 



Series measured: (6162-6185). 



