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Quadrille Ruled Form.
John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N.Y. Binder and holes in leaves, each Patented 1906
Carrying Place Cove
On the Southeast side of
Carrying Place Cove passing into Wintertown there occurs
west of the point in western
5-53-7 and passing recently into
5-52-9, a fine series of exposures
of shales. The upper few feet are
thin, fine-grained, indurated beds
similar to 5-52-9 A and
contain a similar fauna, Unknown
etc. This fauna not collected,
except a single specimen of
Bellithophora (globular form), Strike
N. 40° W., dip. 35° N. E. These tough
indurated shales overlie a series
of more profile shale in which
slaty cleavage was dominant over the bedding. Strike of cleavage
N. 40° E., dip. 60° S. E. These shales
are cut by a basal dike extending
N. 30° E. The entire shale series may
be 250 feet thick and just east
of the point overlies a series
of dark indurated slick-bedded shaly
limestone containing grains of
feldspar, glimmer-cysts, etc., and several
seams full of fossils occur here. And thick bedded sediment
etc. and include a very varied 5-52-9 C fauna.
Wilsonia
Leptostrophia spp.
Chonetes cornuta
C" bastini? occasional but abundant
in a seam, lower down
[illegible]
?Strophonella
Dalmanella
Rhudland
Very Common
Common
Rare
Rare