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The Cambrian sea came in as a sand
flat of my Dallas water, and it so continued
into the shales and the limestones. In the
latter occurred goss of intraformational
crysmmerates, the pellets were flat up to 1/2
not thick and in length up to 3 inches. All
the edges were rounded. Also several goss in
which the pellets are well rounded and
Haeckel (see the two specimens) and at first
these may be hollow rolled pellets like those of Sargassum.
I mistook them for algae, then the sedim
ments and especially the crysmmerates along
with the communal nature of the holo-
lites goss to prove that these sea bottoms
were often churned up and rolled into the
Haeckel pellet and intraformational crysmmets.
These waters were hardly over 100 fath in
depth. We are here dealing as well
also in the second Canyon region with
Dallas near shore flat sea bottoms.
The land every where appears to lie to the east
and north. The southern and western shores
must lie far away.