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Lockport. Friday Aug 22 - 1913
Rained all morning.
In the afternoon it cleared some but
we started out for the quarries about one-
mile north of Lockport. After crawling around
all afternoon we finally made out the
following section pretty well. The lower part
of the section can only be seen back of
the United Indurated Pipe Co. Here at the
level of the water in the canal to the
turbine one sees about 44 feet of Queenston.
Over the latter lies the white Whirlpool
sandstone here also filling in the same cracks
of the Queenston. It's over nine or 6 feet
filled and by then reddish sandstones for 11 feet
more. Williams got down over the cliff
hill side and made out these thicknesses.
The next higher beds could not be well
made out but as I saw them from the
other side of the gulch they looked to me
like an alternating series of thin green if