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Janesville
A number of extensive quarries
and natural exposures are to
be found here.
At a quarry 1/2 mile west of the city
is a large quarry. The basal layers
are not very fossiliferous. Above
these lie layers "eminently fossilif-
erous".
At the lower R.R. bridge at Janesville
the whole of the Lower Buff is
shown, resting on the St. Peters,
and overlaid by 30' of the higher beds.
These beds are here less fossiliferous
than usual.
About two miles above the city Rock
River cuts through the lower part of
the formation and into the St. Peters,
and a ravine coming in on the
east, through which the road