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thin bedded li., or the boulder are decidedly flattish. The layers of these measure about one acre and less than 2 miles thick. All are practically angular.
Of one of the boulders about 5 feet long by 2½ acres composed itself of li., cyl.
Beyond this bed of cyl. error, the first large piece of precipitate shale forming about 20 feet thick and extending for a total length of more or less; its east end goes out to sea and the west finally going into the bank above the shore. The mass is composed of bands of dense fine-grained dark gray li. 1 to 2 miles thick and alternating with equal thicknesses of almost fresh blue-green shale. There are frequent interbedded small layers of intermediate li., cyl. 1½ to 3 feet thick and a few feet long but then in one layer here a foot thick and 50 feet long tapering toward each edge. It becomes evident that we are dealing with two independent li. cyl., an older one of Bedl-erontum age recurring interbedded in the Bedl-erontum shales and the white in turn embedded as boulder in the late Ordovician Carthell conglomerate.
"Of the upper 8 feet of this shale mass, their clay continues for the full length of 50 feet, being separated by 3 or 4 bands of cyl. in the western half of its length from the same family the shale mass which is so often it forms a bar stretch and is poorly exposed. (and hidden in the section.)
"Following this mass of shale is another 20 feet of leary li., cyl. In this bed the boulders average much smaller than in that below but we exceptional one of left gray li. is about 2 diameters. There are 2 large boulders made of li., cyl. like that interbedded in the shales (picture exits).
"Following this is another past-banded mass of thin dark li. with shale. One block is about 20 feet thick and 100 feet long to where it goes.