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July 16, 1877
W of Birch Point and a quarter
of a mile southeast of Oak Hill
(i.e., Clement Pt. of map) on a
road about one hundred yards north
west of 255.8 B begins a series
of exposures connecting in the
southeast of an isolated patch
K
of gray calcareous beds, flags and
gray chales about 10 to 50 ft.
[illegible] thick, striking N45°W and
dipping at an angle of 38°. N.
45° East. The rocks consists
of light gray (steel colored)
greenish limestone lands
1/4 to 1 miles thick separated
by 1 to 5 inches of gray
shale or thin flags. In a
couple of places also are
some good 3" to 4" flags.
The rapid alternation of lim
estone seams and flaggy
or flag-shale seams is clearly
evident. The beds contain
an occasional scattered spir-
iferina = 255.8 K and in
some of the flaggy shale
seams of Canellibrancha.
These beds crop out entirely
within the work of Mr.
Shaw.
A few rods to the
northwest begins a
series of red and gray
shales consisting of
at the foot of gray thin-shale
(a). 10 feet of red shale.
(b). 4 feet of shircher bedded
gray/red-gray mottled
shales. These latter exhibit
an anticlinal structure
which was noted and
figured by Prof. Staker, but the
anticline is really a little generally
done with the line of strike,
swinging around from N.25°E.
on the southern side [dip N.65°E.
41°] to 75.75° W on the north-
west end and dip of 45-50°. N.15°W.
The beds (c) are coarse, flaggy, red,
and any network structure in a
few places containing a thin calcar-
aceous seam 1/2 on mid. thick
and in the upper third occur
interstitial 1st 2 or 3 [illegible]
tuffa 2 to 5 inches thick and
separated by 1 to 5 inches of shale.
These tuffs are 116 (the middle
seam). Fossils occur in the lower
stratified shales in the chales just
above = 2.55.8 B #. These fossils are
Lepidoptera and ostracods, [Beyrichia],
no Lingula & no Canellibrancha. The
fossils occur in several seams through
out the lot feet of (C). The rocks
(c) dip under 2.55.8 K where latter is
directly resting on a faulty
intervene which appears insoluble.
The beds (d) in 9 feet of red shale
consist of sandy thin shales and
network tuffs varying from a
delight brick red to a darker
purplish red with a few 1 inch
thick seams of sandier or flaggy
shale. No fossils.
The 14 feet (a) consists
of light greenish gray network shales,
or tuffs with some gray flags &
some thin veins calcareous
seams with a couple 7/8 inch
calcareous flags. Fossils
only occasional seams of [illegible]
22.55.8 A #
# Wrt 2.55.8 N B, 40-41. 32, 31. The fossils in
area H are connected to 2.55.8 A & B 6 miles
broadside but not at the same latitude.