Field Notebook: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania
Page 24
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Neenah Thursday July 16-90 Had a buggy and drove onto the east side of Lake Kionebago in the purpose of collecting in the Hudson River shalu. About two miles south of Clifton found an exposure along the water edge. The shaly at this locality are exposed about fifteen feet, weather to a blue color but give chocolate tint upon fresh fracture. The basal layers are a mass of Septobolus occidentalis. Since then layers of limestone have occurred but their preservation is so poor that it is impossible to determine them. These layers seem to be directly equivalent with the Magnolia shaly of Iowa. Near the village of Clifton and north of Lime Kilns, about thirty feet above the lake level I picked up