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Lockport, N.Y.
Friday August 16 - 1907.
"Called on Gen T. Mac Conne, and he took me to the Whittemae quarry. Here about
20 feet Medina is shown. The basal layers
for 5 feet are solid white sandstones with
little crin bedding. Then follows about 6 feet
of thin bedded sandstones with some shells.
These sandstones are decidedly crin bedded.
At the top of these thin bedded
sandstones that Dickhaut collected some of
the Medina fossils. Then came in mostly
shells, with some thin sandstones, some of
which are more rippled marked, but the
regular corrugation, but the irregular ones,
and others show plainly the flat wash or spill
g a beach.
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"Above these shells which also have bands
of almost an inch or crin areculate are found
once crin bedded sandstones. Probably less
than 3 feet thick."
In the afternoon visited the Bully