. An ecological characterization of Coastal Maine (north and east of Cape Elizabeth) . - 120' 160' BEDROCK t^ TILL fe^i^S^' $. :3^ OUrWASH Mainly compact gravel or sand and gravel; locally contains day. Occasionally descrrbed as 'hardpan " Fine to coarse sand, some silt, and occasionally gravel in various amounts. CLAY Blue or gray clay and silty clay; locally contains sand in basal part ESTUARINE AND RIVERINE DEPOSITS Mud. soft mud. or silt; fluviatile sand and gravel (along Kennebec River may be outwash); scattered shell fragments, some wood. Figure 6-2. Cross-section of deposits fillin


. An ecological characterization of Coastal Maine (north and east of Cape Elizabeth) . - 120' 160' BEDROCK t^ TILL fe^i^S^' $. :3^ OUrWASH Mainly compact gravel or sand and gravel; locally contains day. Occasionally descrrbed as 'hardpan " Fine to coarse sand, some silt, and occasionally gravel in various amounts. CLAY Blue or gray clay and silty clay; locally contains sand in basal part ESTUARINE AND RIVERINE DEPOSITS Mud. soft mud. or silt; fluviatile sand and gravel (along Kennebec River may be outwash); scattered shell fragments, some wood. Figure 6-2. Cross-section of deposits filling the tidal portion of the Kennebec River (adapted from Upson and Spencer 1964). 6-8 (.


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