. Bulletin. Ethnology. HRDLlCKi] DISCOVERIES ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY MAN 25 queutly preserved. The chief lo- cality for vertebrut^^ and plant fossils, liowever, is at tlie public road crossing oue-lialf mile north of Vero. \\here the canal cuts into an old stream bed. The canal enters the ⢠stream bed about 500 feet west of the cross- ing, and follows it while passing under the bridge and for oOO and 600 feet l)eyond, or for a total distance of about 1,000 feet. [Sketch map, fig. 1.] [Pp. 123-120] The marine shell marl into which the canal cuts, No. 1 of the section shown in text figure 2, is a p
. Bulletin. Ethnology. HRDLlCKi] DISCOVERIES ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY MAN 25 queutly preserved. The chief lo- cality for vertebrut^^ and plant fossils, liowever, is at tlie public road crossing oue-lialf mile north of Vero. \\here the canal cuts into an old stream bed. The canal enters the ⢠stream bed about 500 feet west of the cross- ing, and follows it while passing under the bridge and for oOO and 600 feet l)eyond, or for a total distance of about 1,000 feet. [Sketch map, fig. 1.] [Pp. 123-120] The marine shell marl into which the canal cuts, No. 1 of the section shown in text figure 2, is a part of the ex- tensive series of marine marls which border the Atlantic coast, beginning on the north near St. Augustine, where the marl is known as " Coquina " rock, and extending south to the Ever- glades of Florida, beyond whicli the shell marls give place to the shallow-water limestones of ex- treme southern Florida. These marls and limestones are known by their invertebrate fauna to be of Pleistocene age. . The sands which as a rule ovei-lie the shell marls are in ])art of marine origin, having accu- mulated in shoal waters or as beaches and dimes at the time the sea withdrew from the land, and are thus contemporaneous in age, or nearly so, with the marine shell marls. However, in ponds, streams, and lakes fresh-water marls, sand, and nuick deposits accumulated which rest upon and hence are of somewhat later age than the marine marls, and it is in deposits of this kind chiefly, as would be expected, that the land and fresh-water fossils are preserved. The basal marine deposits have been designated liy Dr. Selhirds as stratum Xo. 1, the superimposed " sand and mi i'liy,v-'o M t. ii'. )\) 11 ,:v)\>,' ll:-:-:;:"'!. ^' ra i u ^ £ £ S ts * a- 1H â -' ^ - £; 5, cS , ^ -o a if p p p â¢S « ^ "S S '5 "S +J to ⢠,2 H 5 * «> ; ;^ 8 9 ^' S . c S c z .g ; e .a K '--,"' a -a â : r, ^ « = a , .Sep K o h a &«= a>
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