Field Notebook: 1978b
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79-103 Malden Mt. Malden Mt. - in Elk Neck - Cecil Co., Md. S W nce of Malden Mt. at Cliff w Chesapeake Bay aft 150 feet above the beach. w/ D. Powell. Potomac fm. in [illegible] grey unctuous clay line. Fossil floras: Andromeda parlatorii Lepidopsis (sel ph. type) Luskendropsis Large wt lepidalian teeth Many others In a 5' line of mid. grey unct unctuosus Clay in h f.g.l. yellowish gry, tabular x- fiddled ss. 20' is about 20' in lateral extent. Top 7 line abt 10' below a prominent 10' bed of semi cemented Conglomerate Clay: Unctuous, mid. gry, wt fuss sturjers of silt & sand frs. occured abt. 9" below top of line between 2 prominent striges of clown debris at 8" apart. scattered leaves occured below this main layer for at least 3 feet.