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Transcription
There is no Christian here since neither here nor
elsewhere about Corington have I seen the charac-
teristic upon Christian fossils. The Marcellus
rest directly on beds holding specific conchina.
The latter fossil is the one persistent marker of the
Beercroft line. I was greatly surprised to see so
great a thickness of this formation, ... To
morrow I will work out this section in more
detail.
April 15-1911.
The Marcellus of the above account is the 8 feet
of shale mentioned on the next page after this. It is
still in the Beercroft, as the 15 feet lying above
the shale is 11 feet of Beercroft followed by 4
feet of Christian. Then the yell mist to greenish
shale of the Marcellus