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"Ballace's Lodge"
fore shale.
quartzite, white
3rd thick.
At another place we saw the basal
layer of a thin quartzite among low the
shale were thrust into the shale. It was about
hith this:
are of these folds in about 2 feet
<division of movement.
Some of the large purple shale quarries, Mr.
Jones, we saw a face of more than 100 foot
of purple shales, and yet 20 foot is
the thickness.
We soon saw the cause
-folding, closed anticline leading north and
sherry of the dip slope = to the west.
strike
< north
dip E.
The slates are so much folded that it is only
in the quartzite that we can see what actually happened.