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soil disolve readily. In one place I saw them
taking out the red earth to a depth of ten feet.
When or cleaned the surface has a decidedly
Balk Lanes effect. It is common to see the
joints in this limestone greatly enlarged by dissolution
and going down for 75 feet. In some cases even
Cavernous. These conditions are not true for the
upper thin bedded series.
About 1/4 mile east we come upon red sandy
shales of a continental type (very much like Greeley)
then upon a shale series and then upon a high
called series if this limestone interstratified with
shales, these are Michigan Algonquin miller beds.
Tort a photo of these last beds but it is raining.
out of place.
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