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case as in the next zone below. Actual thickness 4 feet.
(13) Redden bedded dolomitic limestones. Actual thickness 17 inches
(14) Blue-green coalescent shale seen in bluff facing rail-
way bridge. Actual thickness 8 feet.
(15) Transition shales to red-brick-red beds below. These are
blue-green beds with the grain of the brick red. Actual thickness 23"
(16) Brick-red shales to above yard and in Dominion Oil-
Plant Railroad cut. Thickness unknown but considerable. May
be at least 75 feet thick.
As the tide was completely out at noon watched up
the shore of the Crock at low-tide line and one sees better
here than at high-tide line the general structure. Just where
on top
the gypsum occurs there is another pitch diamond followed by
a great mass of red beds with some harder dolomitic
rough horizontal dolomite
grain before the Millers quarry zone is reached. The
Chagres Point horizon must be still higher followed by
the second thick
of gypsum on top of it. The entire thickness of the
Prindon series is considerable, much greater than my
original estimate of 240 feet. It will run near 600 to
800 feet. Most of the material in shale and probably one-half
of the entire is red shale.
To the west of the railroad bridge end of the Crock
the beds show considerable difference of strike and particular
dip. There are several smaller faults but none of these I
interpret as broken arches or rolls in the crumpled beds.
The own thrusting and faulting is to N.N.E.