Field Notebook: Florida. 1911, 1912
Page 61
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Transcription
Wading north from South Beach to the Light House me sees another bar forming outside Anastasia. Inside of this bar gradually the molluscs become more and more abundant and finally at the Light House me sees exposed in a Cliff about 8 feet high all of crquina. It is fairly regular stratified through though some irregular bedding but near unconform bedding. The great bulk of the material consists of [illegible] broken and dishevelled open valves of which area is the most abundant. There are narrow layers in which are the valves are really entire though open. These crquina deposits are undoubtedly by local and may be due to particular orates where the molluscs can find unencrusted, and than dead graded once a less abrupt into flat layers with little or no sand ad only lime. Oysters are rare in the Crquida. What I saw was practically unconsolidated, though many [illegible] were lying upon the beach that were somewhat hardened though a little gloomy in juxta on them while others though.