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Lyons
Neck (1)
5.45.1
Out the east side of Lyons Neck
A m N. 5. 45.1 about 40 yards worth
of the brook outcrops 3 feet of gray
rhyolite tuff overlain in area
40 ft. broad at the base of which
are exposed 6 or > feet of blue
shale. V 10.35. Total shale probably
21/2 ft. thick. Fossils in seams in the
shale include Dalmanella abund
Stenoscisma pichra comm.
Orbiculoidea occasional
monotrypa "/"
5.45.1
a
The shales are overlain to the
north by an exposure of some 17 ft.
of rhyolite tuffs (massive) and
Ellen outcrops a ledge of 6 ft. of
blue shale forming the shore
line A 3.35 This shale contains
the same ware Dalmanella abund
Stenoscisma occ.
Orbiculoidea "/"
monotrypa "/"
Actinopterella rare
5.45.1
B.
The northerly strike brings (A) to the
shore again and just north of the
S. boundary of 5. 35. 7 the strike
N20 V 20.350 brings both A B and
the tuffs into outcrop once more.
In 5.35.7 the south of the
joint is a strip about 100
yards wide in which of which
outcrop some 35 or 40 ft. of shales
of 5.45.1. B.
Out the point there out-
crops a trap intrusion bounded
5.35.7