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Dalhousie R. B. July 19-19/3
Drew on the entire section with Dr.
Bancroft, working the soft basal tuff of
the edge of the low land beyond Sturants
farm comes in volcanic tufts = ashes with
lapilli and bombs. Have two samples. The
then goes on into lava flows and again soft
material of violently erupted rocks. This left
the sea bottoms very soft. Over it is then de-
posited beds 8-11. In bed 11 occur the Lediella
pseudogaleata and Leptaenocera. The fossils lie
directly on the igneous ash and bomb material.
Ledication is more regular through 217
feet but the volcanoes cry over and then
throw out ashes and lapilli. But 9 is again
a tuft almost all made of of lapilli and
no fossils. Even the "comp act limestone" (art)
is filled with ashes and has some fossils. It
is thought a rare probability that one can trace
to the "inclusion" of Clarks that one sees now
Sturants book. On the beach where one sees