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Saturday August 13, 1932
Wea. WED. MAY 19, 1909 Ther.
A fine cool day after the rain of last
evening, but I do not feel like walking and
geologying. Dr. State on hours walk east of
the hree (three) end of the village of St. Albans. Many
fine fossils and some of the walls are paved with
slabs of pink Armorian quartzite and what look
like slabs of the iron bedded chert rocks. The
former show fine translation ripple, track marks
of the run up of the scours and these slabs were
reflate (reflected) with rain pittings. These phenomena
show unmistakable local evidence of very
shallow sea.
On the Armorian slabs pitting is also com-
mon mostly oscillation with some translation rip-
ple. On these I saw neither track marks nor rain
imprints. Evidently the water was deeper, but it could
not have been much deeper than 20 feet. Here the
material must also have been granular, hardly
grains of dolomite with fine sand cemented by
dolomite. Phenomena as before show that the
Armorian is a very shallow deposit, and it may
enclose rock as far as it was deeper than 100 feet.