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August 13. Talle Stedell Section, revised.
with rippling at 4' far from the top, and obscure sun-cracks at
20' from the top. This is the base of Rickard's zone I.
The next lower division is darker in color and makes an
easily distinguishing field guide.
6' Dark flint-bronze-gray friez cryptolite dolomite li,
36' More cloud dense and very hard dolomite li, weathering
lighthuff-pay. Hearin redded than zone I. Some layers
with obscure furoidal mottling. In places, trucciated and
cemented with white crystalline dolomite. Many veins of
dolomite. Some layers are laminated like stratum.
Near the base of this zone is where Helicymognopetus occurs.
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8' Darker gray stratum-like beds.
31' Dark- flint-bronze-gray dolomite.
17' Heavy flint -gray dark beds with furoidal mottling and
cloudy white crystalline dolomite. Obscure Helicostoma
an ecomm.
18' Heavy beds mottled white and dark-gray dolomite.
About one-half white. At the base a Pilcunas oras found.
15' Light flint gray heavy bedded dolomite. This zone
strikes into the hill.
This takes us to the level of the lowest exposure in the north
of the hill and to the top of the horizon of heavy and shale
beds observed at the top of the section north of the
hill on August 11. This gives a total of 131 feet in the