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I seen some soft merchant yellow sandstone having
Spirifer coraxum in abundance and a pale ford.
This must be the base of the Marlines resting on the
Redwood. Following along the road all the field,
napdly
succession comes in, the dip increases, and the top of the
field is vertical. Not far away is again the Redwood.
with the iron ore once prominent.
/ The following is therefore the succession.
[illegible]
Marlins 100 to 125 feet
Creymann
New Jostland
New Jostland.
The commonest fossil is the
Phibidomella followed by the Piumu
tabulis and Meristella. The star
phonella is also common in the
sandstone layers. Spirifer coraxum
is common to see the horizon
above the Marlines, of corals
Diphyphyllum is abundant folowed
by the long slender cup from and Cyatiphyllum.