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Limestone Reef, Rose Hill
9:0 main lim., North the Potomac R.
Here are shown no less than 175
feet of Tentaculite limestone. Have a
few fossils, Tentaculites, Ostracoda and
a smuall Meristella, Also a Petgia near
above. Most of these are in the upper thinl
although the Meristella goes through.
The Tentaculite is rare here and was found
only in one bed about one third from the
HP.
This section shows with the top
are the bottom,
The thickness of the entire L. Id. could
not be be made out but it can hardly
be less than 1000 feet. L.Id.
Lower are the N.J. Horizons and
the Triassic zone I Part Jersey but
not the Lower Potamene, This horizon
does not appear to come to the