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Transcription
"Just before noon we drove back again and at 1
P.M. got out of the car near at Dronning's Core.
On the shore we came upon the coarse sandstone
conglomerates of Argeus zone 7. The question at once
arose do these beds belong to the Drindon? I did not think
so and are then parallel with along the shore forming
our greenish gray sandstones and shales with limestone
conglomerates. These conglomerates occur in the midst
of sandstones and ocal is the cementing material of
the limestone pellets. These one as a rule sparse,
less than one mile across, of different limestones and
calcareous shales but usually a gray or light blue.
In zone 8 the pieces are very large, and as a
rule flat slabs anywhere up to 1/2 miles long and
up to 1/2 miles thick. As one proceeds downward
into zone 9 more and more red shale, and red sandstone
come in but the limestone conglomerates constantly
reappear downward until we has passed through
570 feet above the dark bed occurs. Below this then
are 1148 feet of red shales and sandstones devoid of
these conglomerates. At first I was inclined to see a
marked essential unconformity 293 feet beneath the
top of zone 8 and photographed it to show the con-
tact (see also the photo sketch). As still other lime-
stone conglomerates came in for 200 feet more.