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in one place
The dip of the strata is marked,
and the formation may be from 20
to 25 foot thick again by
the Camden chert. The latter
cannot be seen except by the
mark of broken chert on the
two sides.
At Allens mill on the Birdsey
occurs an exposure of Menisid
cus bristae followed by Zone
Helduby. I saw a few Zt.
Orthis and several two species
and some fragments of that peculiar
bush crinoid root. That the
Meniscus bristae also occurs
here is shown by the presence
of Astraeospongiae.
On Wolf Creek the Zone Heldu-
bury is mainly a shale and a few
thin beds of limestone. One portion
has considerable limestone and it