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laid down under the influence of standing water.
Twenty feet above the coal gang #4 of Logan is a zone
[illegible]
of muddy sandstone interbedded with shales. The sandstone are
thin semi-cervicing. Proof that the water depth had again been
filled in. Twenty feet of depth had been filled in with sand
and coal and coal muds.
Apparently above coal gang #4 comes in a thick zone
of sandstone, about 25 feet thick. It is irregularly bedded
flaglike, channeled below on the dark cantracoccus shales, and
channeled within the mass, great holes ten feet deep filled of
cryst red sandy shales. Above is grit beds of shales, red and
green below the main coal. The sandstone is evidently the
inflowing in a storm followed by grating land conditions.
Looking at the various thin zones one is struck
by the regularity of the bedding where the coal is present.
The adjoining sandstones are then, regular in thickness from
one end of the cliff to the other. This is the condition or
lay as the shales are cantracoccus but other thick sand-
stones occur these are usually crudely semi bedded, cut
into the shales below (= channel), or cut into their own
bed of sandstone and allow the red shales above to
deposit crusty sand in those hollows in a very
irregular way. Where the coals are absent there the
shales are a light red in color alternating with
some green shales.