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At 2 P.M. started out on an exploration trip,
on the Leroy Fourtains road.
Soon saw some Hamilton fossils but did not collect
these for the present.
At Leroy Fountains saw excellent exposures on
two hillsides of the Lewistown limestone. This is the
locality described by Spencer. The soil over these
impure limestones is red as is usual for limestones
in this county. In the soil cover are horizons of more
fine limestone are seen siliceous fossils—about 3 species
of brachiopods, 1 a Stromatypa and 2 sp. of cephalas.
In other horizons lower down may be seen other
fossils among them stromatoporae. Spencer gives the
thickness for these limestones as 93 feet and all
belong in the Oranlias —
the same Marlies seen at Carl Valley are else-
where about Cambaund. One horizon had consid-
erable evidence of cytiden in columns and estalby
plats.
Above these limestones are soft shales that
weather out some check. In the shales I saw
Candelia and ostracoda. This may be Lower
Oristang. Saw no evidence of the stelden hujon
nor the true Oristang. (See later notes)
(This one is the Onneldgs shale of Kindle).