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FLORIDA state; GEOLOGICAL survey. 
fact, wherever excavations for public roads or for railroads, or where 
rapid surface wash has removed the soil and residual material. The 
dip of the fullers earth stratum from the north to the south line of the 
county along this river is but slight and apparently scarcely equals the 
fall of the stream beds. At the Georgia line on Willacoochee Creek 
the fullers earth stratum lies above the stream bed about fifteen fe_et. 
Outcrops seen on Swamp and Attapulgus Creeks within one to two 
miles of the Georgia line lie at about the same level above the stream 
beds. In the section at Nicholson on Little River, formed by the 
union of these two streams and about seven miles south of the state 
line, the lowest fullers earth seen lies twenty feet above the bed of 
the stream. At Midway, near the southern part of the county, the 
fullers earth lies along .small streams (Sec. 8‘, T. 1 N., R. 2 W.) reach¬ 
ing back as much as two miles from Ocklocknee River. At Jackson’s 
Bluff the southernmost exposure of fullers earth seen, the stratum lies 
above the bed of the Ocklocknee about twenty-five feet. Beyond this 
point the dip of the strata is doubtless more rapid than the fall of the 
stream as the bluffs die out toward the coast. 
In the western part of this county the fullers earth stratum is cut 
into by the head waters of both the North and South branches of 
Mosquito Creek; and farther south by the tributaries to Flat Creek 
and Crooked Creek, also in Liberty County by the head waters of 
Rock Creek and Sweetwater Creek. While the tributaries of Little 
River, flowing in a general north and south direction, flow parallel with 
the fullers earth strata, the tributaries of the Apalachicola with much 
steeper gradient, cut across the edge of the fullers earth strata 
and into the sands, marls and limestones lying below. Although in 
general horizontal minor folds have been observed in the fullers earth 
at several localities. 
The exposures along Little River give only partial sections of 
the fullers earth series. Several of these sections follow, which will 
help to indicate the character of the exposures. With the exception 
of the sections at Nicholson and at Quincy, the measurements in these 
partial sections are approximate. 
Section in Owl Commercial Company Pit at Quincy. 
'6. Sandy, more or less decayed mottled clays of varying thickness and 
separated by unconformity from the stratum beneath, about... 12 fett. 
5. Bluish colored sand rock with some clay and with occasional shell 
and marl inclusions ...h ......... 4 feel. 
4. Fullers earth .... 6 feet. 
3. Sandstone more firmly indurated than above and containing shells 5 feet. 
:2. Fullers earth, about ... 6 feet. 
1. Test pits indicate that the fullers earth is underlaid by sands. 
