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At mile post 58 a washout shows a section of:
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Twelve hundred feet east of mile post 58 a cut sixty feet long shows a deposit of brown and brownish gray sandy clay folded over a rounded exposure of white clay, and resting at each end on a deposit of white mottled sandy clay. This brown sandy clay extends eastward to mile post 59, where it is ten feet deep. Toward the eastern end of the cut this brown sandy clay has a tendency to lamination, dipping south 50 degrees east 15 to 5 degrees. One thousand feet east of the mile post the color changes to a light gray for some distance, and then becomes mottled. An exposure at mile post 62 shows a light gray sandy clay enclosing nodules of white clay.
One thousand feet east of mile post 64 a gully on the south side of the road shows a deposit of cross-bedded brownish white or gray sand, fifteen feet deep, containing great quantities of pebbles, forming a ridge extending northeast for over a mile.
Four thousand feet west of mile post 66 a cut, twenty-two hundred feet long, shows a section of mottled indurated sand or soft sandstone, cross-bedded at the west, but becoming more regularly stratified toward the center and through the eastern half. The dip is south 50 degrees east, but very slight. The upper surface of the brown sand is irregular and wavy in form, and at the east end is overlaid by an irregular series of deposits of pale blue clay, which in turn is overlaid by a pale blue sand. The following section is from the combined sections at various portions of the cut:
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6. SECTION ALONG THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY, FROM
ROCKLAND TO
SABINE PASS
This line extends south from the Neches river at Rockland, in Tyler county, to Sabine Pass, on the Gulf coast, in Jefferson county.
Rockland has an elevation of one hundred and thirty feet above sea level, and the country lying south of the river gradually increases in altitude until at Summit station, six and one-half miles south, the crest of the ridge attains a height of four hundred feet.
The gray sandstone found in the neighborhood of Stryker, on the Trinity and Sabine Railway, are here found occupying a position at the