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Windson July 25-Tuesday.
Spent the entire day at Windoners
Point one mile of the Avon from the two
bridges collecting in the "Upper Windon" lime-
stone. Seemed quite a lot of excellent
material.
The "Upper Windon limestone" is between
30ft 40 feet thick and in the upper two thirds
is of the same nature as the Chiller quarry
dolomites. Below this the beds gradually change
into a softer yellowish dolomite, the fossils
become rarer and finally are almost none
before the gypsiferous 'gme' is attained which
underlies this dolomite. (See beyond)
The gme from which our finds came is
near the center of the "Upper Windon limestone".
Here the shells are wonderfully abundant, are
scattered about without regular order, usually of
both valves but some single ones are present.
It is only where the beds are considerably weathered
that we can get the shells out. Otherwise one can