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July 14.
This red series is undoubtedly the "Trinodon". This brick red coarse sandstone to conglomerate interbedded with fine grained of red shaly sand-stone. It is all decidedly very banded and is rarely cut through by thin veins of gypsum. The pebbles in the conglomerate as in the sandstone are full kinds of materials off and hard those very quartz feldspar etc. In size the pebbles arrange from 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick layers occur up to one inch across. It all weather down rapidly and seems as has this material was a marine deposit and it reminds me much of the Triassic at New Haven. In some cases all the pebbles of whelkbone slope and hard horn have a varnish over them due to the samples.
About 1/2 miles to south of the Trinodon of Clam Cove maybe seen the prolong faulted contact.
These strata have the dip of the hard coconal carbon.
The dip and strike is at right angles to the Trinodon
There is a small broad flaring in near the northern end of Clam Cove. Here we measured the dips, Latom & Co. a number of high Ordovician fossils.
Then I went to the south horn of the creek where pencil shale and red shales are all prominent. In the pen area that give a little lying apart a few fossils indicating different Ordovician. Now a stone from them the "Fiddle" Platyophia tipata, and an Arled 2 inch acorn (the pair in front show to fit). The beds are much more eroded, rifled, and round rolling due to wave motion.