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Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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Transcription
Farther over these red beds have cortical fillings instead
of calcareous concretions.
The cortical cemented beds are of ferric material and look
more like cements than the limy concretions of New York, in the
proximity of anticlinal and synclinal arches these beds are exceedingly
crushed. Some of the harder long beds are curiously contorted
way. Take a picture of one of these contorted beds. The upper harder
hardened layer is folded while the softer beds below has been thrown
into the hollows for the contractions. As a rule the lower soft
bed flows into the cavity but in some cases are heaved. When
the picture was taken the beds were much crushed.