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Monday June 6 -1910 Altoona
Got up as usual at 6 A.M. and after breakfast
to see the interesting sections about Hollidaysburg.
At the LaLemont electric railway cut about 2 1/2
about the lower 73 ft
miles south of Altoona station may be seen the LaLemont (Salinian) series abounding in Ostracoda, small Meristella,
an occasional Favrites, very rare Rhynchotrema, and
many small gastropods as Pelecy pods.
The base of the Lalém cut here is an intra formation
conglomerate (edge-wise peices, chucked up sea bottoms) with
crabs (Favrites), Sperifera sp. (which has them) and Ostracoda,
thickness 3'4". Which is "huldy bee". About 6 feet higher
another intra formation conglomerate. Above the huldy bee for
about 20 feet there are many zones of cratulinic like linden
[illegible]
beds between thin zones of shale. Then gradually into more
shale beds with the shale almost a Hassel laminated shale
in which which get Raphomilleria. Here I picked up
a few small slabs with Ostracoda. Most of my
fossils come from the upper beds of the Lalémvale justally appear
to 50 feet of this section.
Total thickness here
112 feet thick
The Rochester beds below, the LaLemont at first sight are
soft unlike the latter but the harder beds are now a blue
limestone instead of a cratulinic like one and all the