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"Barton Beds. August 17-1913,
Williams tells one that the Barton
beds according to C.C. Grant are 83 feet
thick over by the islet of clutters near
the base of the Lrockfort. Then tells there
that are just more of Lrockfort without
the hut and that evening do not go
with the Rochester.
He has at Barton beds in the fields
that I collected with Grant one gives up
are 1/2 miles west of Bentworth street
inclined railway.
The best Barton locality where 30 feet
of beds can be seen near Mount Albion
which is 6 miles south east of Hamilton.
This is also on the edge of the gneiss.
The Barton beds consists of thin bedded
limestone with shale or iron clay beds and bituminous
arms partings. There is no chalk in these
beds. Drudging there are heavy bedded crystalline
dolomites.