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Transcription
In the afternoon Stizenwe took me
at mt 13 miles D. B. of Tucum to Ogden's
base to the south of the Cajo Road. The
place is an at and med quarry for limestone
turned to lime. The series is Ripon Penn-
sylvanian, and something like 200-300
ft of thick bedded dark-hue limestone,
are seen. The fossils are all pseudomorphs
crusted out on the surface. While these
surfaces now show or lateritic soil they
must have formerly been joint surfaces along
which the water could dissolve and carry
the solids to silica. The place has been
visited now by many students so that all
the good things had been taken away. A
small Semionula and Papyr uths
are the common forms. Several species of
Productus occur, and they are the
real guides to the horizon. In the life
here a large cardinal Euomphalus is