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I gathered limestone to me face I shield some
attached fossils like those of the Osceola conglomerate
layer. What in it is a Spirifer mud like S.
[cyclotera] and valves of [Merrittella] or Renssi-
[lauria] filling the former. Can this have been
carried on the Beer's limestone down from
wherein in Bath Mountain? Later - this certainly
was a piece of Secrest li. indicating that there was eroded off
out hole. The fossils attached to it show like those at Cherry Run.
Setting over Massanutten Mt. and going down
Upper
tr Overall is less than 30 feet beneath the [Massanette]
sandstone we found a taut of Calymene, Athys tes-
[tudinaria] Byssocrinus micoleta, Rafinesquina alter-
[mata], Tentaculites (about 3/4 in lay straight), This sandy
shale zone must be at least 30 feet thick when
one sandstone of considerable thickness affords
(Faulted down upon Massanette sandstone)
a character like the true Massanutten. A
more shale of the same sandy character and Clathus
testudinarius and Rafinesquina alternata.
This is the Upper Massanutten faulted down. The
sandy shales beneath must be his Lower Massanutten,
the fossils of which indicate it to be Lorraine.
Later in going back up the mountain collected again
in the soft yellowish sandy shales underneath the
[Lower] Faulted upon
Lower Massanutten sandstone are found S. Athys
[annulata] dorsal valve, several Rhynchonella