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Friday June 3-7910. Kezer-Pint.
Left Cumberland at 7 A.M. fn Twenty-first
Bridge, West Virginia
Between the New Scotland shale and the Hackberry
Lower Ordovay then in a reddist blenformed gne asblt
6 miles thick. Hardly known a residua earth.
The 90 feet of Lower Ordovay might as once be con-
tinued fn another 80 feet before the more sande
Upper Ordovay appears. These lower 80 feet are fluised
in color while the Upper Ordovay is decidedly one
candy and yellowish in color. The next 16 feet have
four prints above which the abundant upper Orilly
[is maytids]
print make their appearance. Then 12x feet to top
of Ordovay. The beds became more sandy and finally conglomerate.
124
16
80
90
{ 220' against my 25 8' of fourth studied section
My former section sum 348 feet.
310 feet fn the entire Ordovay.
Kezer Quarries, West Virginia.
The contact between the Cofly [basal Marbles] beds
and the even bedded (Tondelway) is now well exposed
here. The contact is abrupt between the two series
and the basal bed of the COFFLY is somewhat brecciated
conglomerate. The parts are thin and flat and of the