Record of Geology op Texas, 1887-1896. 
183 
274. Kennedy, W. 
A Section from Terrell, Kaufman County, to Sabine Pasis on 
the Gulf of Mexico. 
Third Ann. Kept, of the Geol. Surv. of Texas, 1891, pp. 41-125, 
3 figures. Ausitin, 1892. 
Conlenis : TnifcroduGtory. Generial Description. — iCretaceoiis. Eocene. 
1. Basal nr Wills Point Clays. 2. Lignitie Beds. 3, Marine Beds. 
The Mount Selman Series. Cook’s Mountain Series. Section — Independence 
to Dial. Seetion — ^Rusk Penitentiary Hill. New Birmingham Sec- 
tion. Alto Region Section. Miocene. Lufkin or Angelina County 
Deposits. Fiayette Sands. Fleming Beds. Pleistocene. Recent De- 
posits. Flood Plains of Rivers. Coastal Prairies or Plains. Lacus- 
trine Formations. Details of Section. — ^1. From Terrell to Mineola, 
along the Texas and Pacifi^Railway. Grand Saline Region. From Grand 
Saline East to Mineola. Section of Well at Mineola. 2. Seetion from 
Mineola to Tyler along the Line of the 'International and Great Northern 
Railway. 3. Seetion from Tyler Southward, along the Line of the Tyler 
Southeastern Railway to Lufkin. Alto Section. From Alto southeast to 
Lufkin. 4. Section from the Angelina River, in Angelina county, iSouth, 
to C'orrigan Station, in Polk county, along the Line of the Houston East 
and West Texas (Railway. 5. (Section from Corrigan eastward to Colmes- 
neil along the Line of the Trinity and Sabine Railway. 6. Section along 
the Southern Pacific Railway, from Rockland to Sabine Pass. Elevation 
of Stations and other Points along the Line of the Foregoing Section. 
“In the First Annual Report of this Survey, Dr. Penrose, Geologist for 
East Texas, examined the rivers crossing the Tertiary deposits, and 
described the beds forming the sections shown along the Brazos, Colorado 
and Rio Grande. The uniform sequence of the various deposits, as exhib- 
ited in these river sections, led to the general inference that these, or 
deposits of a similar character, would be found extending clear across the 
State, from the 'Louisiana line on the east ito the Rio Grande on the west. 
“While these river sections are very valuable in many respects, they do 
not give a conseeutive view of the whole of the beds constituting the 
various divisions of the Tertiary and newer strata in Southern and Eastern 
Texas. This is necessarily so, as the river banks have not, except at a 
few places, sufi&eient height to disclose any eontinuous order of succession 
of the beds. From the series of bluffs presented here and there, some- 
times comparatively close together, but in many cases at long intervals 
apart on the three rivers mentioned, Dr. Penrose constructed the sections 
described by him in his preliminary report. 
“With the twofold object of ascertaining the continuity of the deposits 
through the region east of Dr. Penrose’s Brazos river section, and filling 
in the breaks necessarily left by him, in order to have as complete a sec- 
tion across the Tertiary areas of the 'State as could be obtained, I was 
instructed to run a line southeasterly across these areas from the border 
of the Cretaceous to the Gulf.” P. 43., 
“A very important considenation was the necessity of having some data 
as to the relative elevations of the different portions of the country through 
which the line extended. The levels of the lines of the various railways 
