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my coarse conglomerate, many of the
pebbles are from 2 to 6 inches long and
all are well rounded, reddish and white
quartzites make up most of the pebbles;
then a some jasper, ifreons rocks and
tale (like the slate in which the Congl.
it), and then maybe some granite or
green present. The basal five feet is a
coarse sand with occasional pebbles
but above 5 feet the whole mass is a
troughed bed. At times it is distinctly bed-
dded and the shale looks like one bed
from the way it heals up but are small
beds in the whole throughout its thickness.
It makes the base to the Cambrian quartzite.
Directly on the Cambrian rests the
dark blue magnesian limestone of the
Upper Ordovician. Less than 3 feet above
the base we saw an abundance of
Eridophyllum, some small cupolas,