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Quadrille Ruled Form. Patented 1906. John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N. Y.
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5.45.6
The 120 foot [illegible] in 5.45.6 is
composed of a mass of coarse
diabase in which is caught
up a narrow strip of bedded
rhyolite glass tuffs or "petro-silex"
which is fossiliferous. The sediment
me about 25 feet thick, outcrop
just north of the road on the
S.W. side of the hill & strike
N-60° W. dip 35° N.E. The fauna
includes an occasional
Actinopterella occasional
Stenoscisma "
Murchisonia "
Crinoid stems Fossils scarce
Along the north shore of Loring
Cove there crops out in S.W.
5.45.6 a thickness of 25 feet of
slanting
gray shale >25-30 underlying ~
1/5 foot <X35-30 light colored
gray white and buff which in
turn underlies the intrusive
trap. Fossils very abundant in
the shales including
Chonetes bastini abundant 5.45.6
Dalmanella " B.
Stenoscisma common
Actinopterella occasional
Crinoid stems common