Field Notebook: Alabama
Page 23
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
" Nov. 25, Sunday. Collected in the afternoon at a locality about midway between Cocoa and Melvin or about one mile west of the former place. The horizon is about 15 to 20 feet higher than the echinoderm bed of the Jackson formation. This fauna is common to a zone about three feet thick through the oyster is found higher and lower through about twenty feet strata. These strata are readily separated from the Jan- Jorden bed in being much stained by iron and in places abound in rock which crumbles under the action of the weather. The most common shell is the oyster.