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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... 3. Reddish sands McBean formation. 2. Greenish-yellow lignitic clay 1. Calcareous marl with O. scllaeformis Westerly exposure at McBean Creek, three-tenths of a mile west of Rates Miller.s store. Barnwell sand. 2. Yellow, gray, and red sands. 32 McBean formation. 1. Soft, chalky limestone, indurated in places, con-taining Turritella carinata. Nucula ovula. Corbnla gibbosa. Pteropsis lapidosa 12 Along the road to Thos. B. Cox.s house deep red, compact sands, and decomposed glauconite with pebbles near base, are seen overlying the material composing the preceding sections. Darge masses of silicified coquina and chalcedony (buhr-rock) with numerous poorly preserved fossils, Mortonia, Turritella obruta, Corbula alabamiensis, etc., Claiborne fossils, occur from eight feet of the base to the hill summit. The observed thickness along this road was 52 feet. Section on Thos. B. Cox's land, six miles southeast of McBean station, from his residence to creek, one-half mile to the northeast. Barnwell sand. Feet. 4. Red sand with "buhr-rock" 105 McBean formation. 3. Blue-green gray shale, nonfossiliferous 20 2. Glauconitic, friable, or indurated limestone (chalky) with Claiborne fossils 4 1. Blue clay with rotten calcareous fossils (Clai-borne) Corbula alabamiensis 1 SAVANNAH RIVER, BURKE COUNTY Shell Bluff.--Shell Bluff is a classic locality and stratigraphically one of the most important exposures in the Georgia Coastal Plain. The bluff is located in Burke Countv, on Savannah River, 40 miles by river below Augusta, and 151 L. miles by the public wagon road, northeast of Waynesboro. The bluff has been referred to in geologic literature more often than any other Georgia locality. Probably the first reference was made by William Bartram, ' the...
Excerpt from Preliminary Report on the Geology of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, 1911 Correlation Upper Cretaceous Eutaw formation Name Definition Areal distribution Stratigraphic position Lithologic characters Strike, dip, and thickness Physiographic expression Paleontologic characters Detailed sections (part of formation below the Tombigbee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.