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Fig. 1. The Saltville, Virginia, locality, showing location of sites within Saltville 

 Valley that have produced herptile specimens mentioned in text. 



1966). This bedrock has been scoured and incised in places by Quater- 

 nary stream action, and is now overlain by up to 3 m of late Quaternary 

 sediments. 



The Quaternary sediments result from multiple depositional epi- 

 sodes dating from the ?Sangamonian interglaciation through the Holo- 

 cene (Fig. 2, Table 1). Terrace-like deposits above 530 m in elevation 

 occur at several places around the edge of the valley; these are consid- 

 ered tentatively to date from Sangamon time. Most of the sediments 



