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Thursday, Aug. 21, 1930, continued
a long straight plane cutting all sorts of stuff presenting in
joints about two feet thick. All is a grey to white lamin-
ated arkosic sand (see sample) with some of the planes
subsequently disturbed red by penetrating roots. A small litter
of mud cracking. The whole appears to me to be a delta
on the land side and other dry terraces lower the sands
into low dunes that the river presents cut off and then
present the sands right to repeat the process over and over again.
After passing the disturbed area, the SS constantly
shows Psilophyton, but at no place does one see leaves, and my free piece that I took along appears to
show needles. If so it must be a club moss.
In one of the dredged clyps, the Sarsness found
an imbedded slab in the clay, 16" long and 4"-6"
thick. It is the same the normal to be seen in the
basely the "Bonarentine" at Beaumene.
Yogan gives the thickness of the so-called
"Bonarentine" as 2966', and of which he estimates 1/4
is clay = 690' (I have reduced it to 53.5'). Then
he estimates over clay (?) down in 300' over to Pla-
teau Island = 3066'. I have changed my field figures
to agree with his making 3060' as on page m left.