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"16" Red, green and [illegible] shales, with two
or three beds of greenish-grey sandstone interstratified
at nearly equal intervals; general confusion
prevails amongst these shales caused by several
small faults.
200'
"174 Red and green slates, alternating in
nearly equal proportions, considerably harder than
any of the preceding shales."
About 150'
"18." Red, green and [illegible] Shales. Some conglomer-
erate li. near the top
230
"19." Fine and coarse fained sandstone and
fine conglomerates (quartz at li.)
300' 5"
"20." Red, green and clayed brown shales.
500'
"21" Thin irregular beds of grey bituminous
li. with jet black shales. Much iron pyrite
here
250'
There is more of this section (Section 4)
shortly lower above the limestone conglomerate
4621 ft. of shales and sandstones, also this thickness
is made up from 2 different sections it is probable that
there is some repetition of beds here. The top due to