Panorama of colluvium 10 miles southeast of Corinth. Alcorn County, Misssissippi. 1915.

Exposures suggestive of origin of colluvium, showing particularly that it commonly fills hollows and is in some places though rarely double. Panorama of colluvium 10 miles southeast of Corinth; the concretionary mass beneath the collecting bag throws light on the origin of the surficial deposit, for it contains many Eutaw fossils, is very fragile and has evidently been let down from the concretionary layer seen in the distance at a stratigraphic position about 10 feet higher. The concretion is of a kind characteristic of this layer. The associated pebbles, however, are not common, if indeed such pebbles occur at all in the underlying Eutaw formation, and hence the conclusion seems unavoidable that the coarser parts...

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