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Saturday August 23, continued
more than at Mr S'. The upper surface of the Devonian is here irregularly eroded so that the Bora are true an-
gular rules uncomformably all of the older strata filling
in all irregularities. See the diagrams on page to left.
The Bor marantime along the sea cliff to the W. of
Belle Chase is not composed of such splinty pebbles as
that to the E, instead more of the underlying Devonian
crag. The Bora marantime can always be readily separated
from the Devonian strata as follows: (1) The B. lies hori-
gontal and the D is deformed at least 150; (2) the B. is a
whitish or light grey crag introducing basalt peacturing ls
along with the older pebbles, while the D. crag are of flint
is in an ashtrio cement, or if ashtrio cross beddedness;
(3) The contact between B and D is an eroded and an-
gular uncomformity with the former overlapping the latter
acim crags (5) and (6) and interbedded sandstones.
There is no possibility of a fault line as Mrs
Goldring has it and besides the Bor marantime reems
more than one-half mile east of where she draws it in
her diagram.
The Bor marantime overlaps the much older and
eroded Devonian. This surface is higher to the eastere
at not 30' above sea level and to the crag at first beneath
the sea, and probably no more of the Devonian can