Field Notebook: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania
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seen yesterday. The fragidiform horizon is change in the lire. repose at the "lower blue beds" and are the top layers of these quarries. Beloit Iri's Wednesday July 22-91. Looked over the largest quarry in this vicinity and known in the lire. Repose at Carpenters quarries now owned by Mr. Damp. The horizon is the "upper buff beds". Fossils very few and not abundant. In the afternoon started for the quarries at Rockton Ill. This place is but four miles S. or W. of Beloit yet the limestone is decidedly more compact than