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Excerpt from Pleistocene Deposits of South Carolina: With an Especial Attempt at Ascertaining What Must Have Been the Environmental Conditions Under Which the Plestocene Mollusca of the State Lived With these thoughts in mind, the task of working on the Pleisto cene formation in South Carolina has been entered upon gladly, though with many misgivings as to the writer's ability to deal with the problem as its importance demands. Of all the Coastal Plain region from Texas to New England, that portion in South Carolina has been, perhaps, least investigated. The true succession and extent of beds have, in many cases, not been fully determined. The extreme thinness of the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene beds, and consequently the greater likelihood of their being entirely re moved in places during periods of erosion, together with the almost universally low altitude of the surface with reference to the sea and the consequent absence of good sections or even many natural exposures of any kind more than a few feet deep, has made it very difficult to trace the succession and extent of these formations. For instance, the patches of Miocene in South Carolina that have been left from erosion indicate that this formation could not have been more than 150 or 200 feet at best, whereas in Texas to the south west it is more than feet thick, and to the north of the State it also gradually becomes thicker. In the region of North and South Carolina there Seems to have been a region or belt of elevation or of minimum subsidence, perhaps since Triassic time. This relative ele vation has caused a thinning of the successive beds since that time in this region. The tracing of the extent and succession of these formations has been engaged in by a good many investigators, from the time Lyell visited the State, in 1841-42, and before on up to the present, or to within the last two or three years, when Dr. L. C. Glenn of Vanderbilt University made some investigations concerning these formations in preparing a paper on Artesian Well Prospects in South Carolina. The work done by these men will be briefly reviewed in this paper under the heading, A Historic Review of the Work Done in the Region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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