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The point forming the southeast shore of the little
gove in central 6:24:7 is composed of a series of better
limestones of which there are exposed about 60 feet. These
limestones show a strike swinging around from N. 25 degrees
west to N. 65 degrees west in traveling northwestwardly, and
continuing a few yards to the west we find some gray shales
striking East-west and dipping North. The shales dip under
the limestones, in case as seems probable, there is no fault
disturbing the relations. The precise contact between shales
and limestones does not show, the interval being covered, ex-
certing for the outcrop of an intrusive diabase sill (1193)
West of the little shale outcrop mentioned we find an
abrupt change in the strike which indicates a fault trending
N. 20 degrees west. The shales were nearly flat, striking
N. 20 degrees west and showing an anticline with dips of 10
degrees to both east and west. This anticline is local and-
arently confined to the vicinity of the fault plane as
the shales in the southeast corner of the gove strike N. 35
degrees east and dip east 15 degrees, and on the west side of
the gove the shales again dip N. 35 degrees East and are flat.
The gove appears to be a triangular wedge of shale cut
off on both east and west by a fault plane. The specimen
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