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July 30. Diemars notes, Lee pays 92-3.
"The phenomena seen this morning are the most unusual and
trelievable I have ever seen. Just masses of relatively soft, incompetent
shely beds hundreds of feet long which are full of prints that should be of the
Reelmantown, lying between conglomerates formed of heavy hard Reelmantown
limestone and yet these heavy bedded li, are in masses many all under 10 feet
acros. What transporting agency could carry off incompetent troubles of sand
unhealed of divisions and at the same time always reduce the hard strata
to far smaller masses? The situation is more confusing because lenses of li,
Congl. are common within the whole mass.
"In the afternoon we started around the north side of Cow Head and
here we found in the li, cong., past masses of thin bedded dark slate shelly li,
that are clean and unmarred off "truckles" which carry Woffa Cambrian trilobites.
Many of these troubles are tens of feet long and the largest perhaps 200 feet. The
evidence here is problems that one is forced to the conclusion that they are trouble
ners, impossible as it seems"
July 31. Diemars notes,
on the north side of Cow Head
"Starting from camp, the beds dip about 30° S. 30E., or the strike comes
the shore down low angle and all the beds run out to sea at the east. Below
one area of heavy li, cong., having a thickness of about 20 feet. This bed is about 1/3
composed of large troubles of light gray Reelmantown li, carrying from 1 to 4 feet
a diameter. In one of these we found Christopher tota and in several others
Reelmantown cephalopods. These large troubles are surrounded by an
arrangement of smaller pebbles and all of which are made of darker, dark colored