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Vincentown July 1 - 1907
In the upper shale above south of Vincent-
town the following section may be seen:
' Soil about 12" thick
3' Lying different imbedded bone.
About 3 ft. irregular surface.
Pleistocene
Marine
turns fossils.
3' Darker cylindrite, iron bedded. Petites
scattered. Large pieces at bottom. One
about 1/2 inch 1/4 wide and in length.
Lignite. Hard piece. 4" - 6"
Cretaceous
Manasquan.
Green sand with small Eoogyra,
found seen, Shells teeth.
Blancanite due for fertilizers.
"Green shale of Upper Mail Red."
or the same shale of the Manas-
quan. Then walked along stream
to beyond the Mill to diggings in the lower
shale of the Vincentown or the upper member
of the Ramerosses. These lime beds are just
below the yellow sand and the basal horizon of the
Manasquan.
The Vincentown lime beds are not less than
15 feet thick, replete with Eocharia. Other fossils
are rather rare are particularly the echinids,
be picked up several and of the ones seen
seemed at least two good ones John B. Brick