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Sagatech, Monday August 26 1939
It began raining hard at 7 A.M. and the day looked lost,
fully 8 o'clock it cleared up so that the day promised to have
of showers, but it rained on us no more. We started south at
9 A.M.
We first examined a little cut on the R.R. about 1 3/4 miles
south of Pal Brilliant and found the same fossils are present in the layers
cut 3/4 mile further south. The few fossils are better here and
especially the hygroza but the species are the same. Shale stand
at a high angle and dip N. At the south end is a fault
apparently a small one like this.
We then studied the big cut 2 1/2 miles S of Pal Brilliant.
At the south end are thin and thick bedded ss with some sandy sh,
all are much folded and obscured. To the N follow a long series
of cleared sh and then come to cross bedded series of lining
ss with an occasional arenaceous ls carrying the fossils. All
of the beds are obscured and faulted, but I do not think much
is cut out at one place. It looks more like accommodation
movement on a syncline. The whole is done limit since
here is no repetition of the beds.
After lunch, at Pal Brilliant, we went south to the
road up towards Arthur's Quarrel Cut and once came to the first
Silurian quartzite seen yesterday are surveyed to begin
and since the Devonian ls come into the N when Old.