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Sep. 18 - Sunday.
With Parke strolled over the collecting
ground of three years ago, saw nothing
particular.
Paid particular attention to the Illinois
horizon and the Coralline group. The latter
lies just beneath the former. Of the Illinois
gone our about 5 feet though the same rock
with these fossils has a greater thickness.
The Coralline horizon is thinner bedded,
lighter in color with the fossils much more
distinct. The common fossils are the
Turrilites, cup corals and Spirifera ericson
that can be seen if the Illinois zone
is only a few feet in thickness. Then there
is a stiff grany clays for about 30 feet
to a bench or flat which I take to be
the stratoline.
Sep. 19. Monday
Left with Parkeby for Krien at