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"Family
In the afternoon walked out east in the Halifax
turn-pike to where it and the D. & R. R. are almost in contact
just as the drillers station
with one another. Here may be seen the thin bedded limestone
of the Ordovica portlei zone with which are associated the
white layers abounding in Lepidoclitia carinaria, less
than five feet down from where Productids like
those in the Crum. Dip 15 1/2° N., strike due east
and west. Portally 10 feet of beds are seen here beneath
the Or. portlei beds. The small Productids occur in the lower,
This locality was noted by Fletcher on his map as with
a dip of 17°.
Just opposite the road and the railway station is a small
cave
road one-tel quarry in the Arvon limestone. Phacotonia globosa occurs here.
Ten feet of beds are exposed. There is a slight
anticline here with the steeper side to the north, but the difference
is not great.
About one-quarter mile east are the large bit and
abandoned drillers gypsum quarries. Saw no limestone
guarry
here but along one of the walls occurs a soft somewhat
diing material out of which has been leached what appears
to have been precipitated gypsum leaving the soft stone
say @aramous.