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Just how thick this sandstone is, you cannot determine along the crest of streams in several hundred feet are exposed and here commonly (probably) the same occurrence as at Buffalo Gap, I
hidded limestone. The def is very low probably not
Omanabulter
more than 100. These then rest on the white
quartzite. Where the limestone rests on the sand-
stone the former of first partakes of the latter
but some becomes pure limestone which under
the weather is settling. Some of the lower beds
are crystalline and have like the Manlius
an abundance of Maricecious stems. It
(?about 200 feet).
is 220 of very regular steps back to the
tase of the sandstone just beneath the Croymans
li. This sandy zone is not over 10 feet thick
as the comes in more crystalline limestone.
which merges into the dark blue impure li. The
crystalline li. is here jointed just the opposite of
if (close like can be held)
the hidden and its thickness is not less than
This entire formation may be much less sandy.
20 to 30 feet. I claim gives the thickness of the
entire limestone as 400 feet.