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August 13-1918. Tuesday Table Head.
As there are marked discrepancies between my measurements
of the section at Table Head when compared with Richardson and D. J. T.,
we concluded to re-measure all of it this morning. We thuse returned
to the first notch of Table Head about 2 miles north of our camp and
first measured down in the section from the Beelmontian-Chazy
contact; and later up in the section to the Paron sandstone. It was
then seen that Richardson Beelmontian gave 2 said to be exceeded
can now be more determined, and that the Chazy thickness was un-
derestimated.
In the afternoon we collected fossils at various places, for
far on Table Head collections are small even smaller than
those of 1910. With the best of intentions one can get but few good
fossils. I collected from the fault rocks country camp