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October 21 Tuesday, Aldmore
It showered much of the night and it
does or this morning. Accordingly we cannot
get out in the field. We hope to go at noon
if it rains no more. It rained no more and we
are off at 12.30 for Berwyn on the Santa Fe railway
13 miles south of Aldmore.
At Berwyn we walked about 2 1/2 miles north along
the Santa Fe P.R. to mile post 463. Just to the north
and [illegible] in a cut we see a series of gray peculiar laminated,
but thick and then redded Haell [illegible]. Here we
saw a small Ostracoides, a small Calamites and
a small coarsely stratified Articulcalamites. This sand-
stone came with interbedded Haell shales in strata 90 feet
thick. About 30 feet beneath the top of these sandstones
for casts of [illegible] are common. Still higher
in the shale saw evidence of one of them, and a
good earthy [illegible] limestone. All
of the psialites found in the small stream forests
the railway. The same came was later seen on the railway.
I then walked up the branch and found the Penn.
[illegible] shales along the Carney sandstone
blue to be sandy in zones for stratify 200 feet high,
followed by soft Haell shales for several hundred feet
more. These then change gradually into blue shale.