Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wea. MON. FEB. 1, 1909 Ther. All mud over bedded, and deposition not irregular. Clear a deposit of a desert with all the paths created with him excretion. Also may grow clay balls, or clay palls. Below the coal measures of the upper stratum the deposition becomes more regularly bedded and becomes more and more a sandstone series. There are all riffled (crum-riffled) and to mark the top. Bee for Estheria dawsone. The whole of the sherton here is about 700 fath or thick. In the cleaner sandstone there is considerable drifted and broken up corrod plant material, among which are payments of Amicmitis. Some of the coral is coral animal which are often deposits. ( dinoconformity ) The sherton is thought to be in broken rela- tion with the Windsor since it is at the least Middle Crimpton that's before this formation. The Windsor begins with about 15 feet of shale and li. gms, and then a bi- oritic that gme, about 30 feet thick. At the base occur about 10 specin of Windsor frogs. The whole of the Windsor may be 700' thick.