Excerpt from The Clay Deposits of the Virginia Coastal Plain The present volume forms Bulletin No. II of the series of reports issued on the economic geology of Virginia, under the cc-operation of the State Board of Agriculture and the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. This report is based on field work carried on during the sum mer of 1905. The investigation was limited to the clays of the Coastal Plain Area or the Tidewater Belt of Virginia. Beginning with the next field season, it is expected that this work will be extended as rapidly as possible to all portions of the State and, when completed, a final volume will be issued on the clays and clay industry of the entire State. The investigation of the Virginia clays was undertaken for the purpose of determining (1) the extent, qualities, and applicability of the clays; and (2) whether the clays now being utilized could be used for making other or better products than are now being made from them. This is fully covered for the Coastal Plain clays in the summary given by Dr. Ries under Clay Working Industry of the Virginia Coastal Plain and Its Future Tendency, on pages 175 and 176 of this report, to which the reader is especially referred. In the prosecution of the field work a large number of samples of the clays were collected from the various deposits and submit ted to careful chemical and physical investigation, the results of which are given in Part II, Chapter V of this report. The Geology of the Virginia Coastal Plain, by Dr. Wm. Bullock Clark and Dr. Benjamin leroy Miller, forms Part I of the report. It is a brief summary of our present knowledge of the Vir ginia Coastal Plain stratigraphy, and was prepared to be used as a basis or guide in the correlation of the various clay deposits de scribed by Dr. Ries in Part II, Chapter V. A report, treating in considerable detail of the Virginia Coastal Plain stratigraphy, prepared under the direction of Dr. Clark, is nearly completed and will be published as a separate report by the Virginia Survey. 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.