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Hamilton, Monday August 18-19/13
Started out John street south to the Mountain. At the head of the Mountain be-
side the road one sees a good exposure of
of the base Lockport over the Rochester shale.
the
The Lockport at base consists of thin
bedded crystalline, cavernous [pinks] dolomite
without chert for five feet. In the next 18
inches there are a few chert nodules and
then the gray-white then bedded fine grained
dolomites, deflute and chert nodules and
chert stringers.
At the very base of the Lockport there is a
thin rim-pyrite sometime fine grained sand,
1 from 1/2 inch to 3 inches thick. On this
follows a dolomite bed from 2 to 4 inches
thick, crystalline, slightly sandy, pyritiferous
and with shale pebbles included that are
up to one inch in diameter.
descended from the Rochester below. There is
no transition between the Rochester and