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Below the 13 feet of argillaceous and flaggy lags occur 6 feet of darker colored tuff, gray, tuffa with a couple of 5 inch flags of glassy argillaceous thin shale. Beds are darker colored or still more argil lacous than those above as well as below.
The latter include 14 feet of finely layered flags of glassy argillaceous dust of a light gray color similar to 1/35-736. A specimen is 1/37. Three flags are generally about 2 inches thick and contain occasional linear to 1/2" seams of tuff. In all the tuff series of this rocks in 1/37-1/35 the specimens are generally minute, less than the size of pea angular or other substance. Below a very much argillaceous bed of the type of argillaceous dust flags occur 3 inches of fissile papery shale which is of a rich olive brown green color as fossils.
Next below are 3 feet of purplish gritty shale, flags are rather thin beds of a dark gray color weathering dull purplish. The fossils except a seam at the base which contains an occasional Rhynchonella of forma = 5/38 O.
Next below 5/380 are 2 feet of rapid alternations of half red seams of fissile tuff with 1 to 2 inches of purplish flags, given then below follows in succession 4/6 inches hard massive argillaceous flags with a few linear tuff seams then 2 inches fissile papery sandy shale. Then 3 inches hard argillaceous flags with a couple of tuff seams partly seams then a foot candy papery flaggy thin shale; then 18 inches of 3 inch flags with 1/4 inch tuff between in the middle; then 5 inches of fissile papery sandy shale olive brown with net work structure. Then a foot of flags similar to those just above.
Next below are 11 feet of thin paper green shales & tuff breccia seams with in the middle, a foot beds half of them 1/2 to 3 inch flags & 1/4 inch tuff breccia seams. This band of flags contains some fossils, Rhynchonella and Astropotrella and they are too small preserved to be recognizable. The shales are finely laminated and eight of an inch thick or less and are of a dirty greenish color. Are very frequently there occur linear seams with small angular fragments pink or white fold apart the size of pea.
Below these thin green shales & red flags land are 18 feet of argillaceous glassy flags generally about 5 inches thick. Just below the middle there is a massive 2 foot layer of tuff breccia. There are also a couple of getting seams 2 inch and 3/4 inch of olive brown candy papery shales and a 5 inch seam in the middle. A specimen of the massive white tuff breccia is 1/38 where there seems at the base a foot and a half of alternations of thin papery sandy olive shale with flag 1/2 to 3 inch flaggy bands is possible.
All the preceding strata up to 5/38 m have a uniform strike of N.40°W and a dip of 35° to the W.40°
Also above strata rest upon a massive tuff of which a