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Thursday May 23-1901
Left New Bloomfield before 7 for
the Clarks Mills beds where we spent
the morning. Around my not hindering
our collecting, seemed far less this
time than on my first visit.
Examined the yellow flint chokes in
the fields opposite the mills for miles but
saw almost none. Showed my first
visit demonstrated them to be the macro
glencoe zone. At the end of the field
in the woods the Quisthany occurs as
a fine conglomerate.
Dare no trace of the Pentamerus
salatus gone and I believe there is now
none. Therefore there is a look of deposi-
tion here between the “Clarks Mills beds”
and the “yellow flint chokes” and again
between the latter and the Quisthany.
Here at Clarks Mills there is a sharp
difference between the Clarks Mills beds and
the Devonian blue marl bed limestone.
The line is marked by Lepidodicta while
the upper begins with the exotic but