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"August 17 Saturday Hamilton, Ont.
At the head of Ferguson Ave on the side of
the 'mountain' may be seen two sulphur quarries.
The lower face is about 35 feet in the man a blue-
shale series helow becoming somewhat red at about
(Change to about 6-7 feet thick)
2 feet from top and then green with some thin sandstone
are turrets that the dolomite offers.
below these become more pronounced in the upper
8 feet and about midway in these 8 feet there is a two
foot layer of cretaceous material some of the greens
2 to 3 feet wide. It is out of this upper 8 feet that my
fossils came from (later it was seen that the lower dolomites come in here)
Upon these Medina deposits follow some blue
shales in which the dolomitic thin has become more
abundant, and finally these dolomites persist until
our shales. In these dolomites at first there are but few
flat nodules outside at the top they are very abundant.
(5 feet seen)
This zone is about 20-30 feet thick. In the dolomites
above the blue (? siltstone) shales one sees
the regular Niagaran fauna of this region: Orthostre,
the large me) Colymene, large head of litho delmours or
Brumastus the long eyed Acidaspis (near the head)
Dolmanites etc. both gave me this fauna as a
The M? In the upper flat nodule horizon is
where the forages occurs. See the fauna in the N
J.H.M.