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"that introduce one and one then very impure liny
Limestone beds that in thickness are nearly always under
one inch.
Their cretaceous surfaces of these
holes are covered with the limestone papouts. These
show entrances up to the Capannela Limestone,
their thickness is in the neighborhood of 1500 feet.
Below the Carey Sandstone we have intensely black
laminated and grey sandy shale, some of them have
nodules near beds of marl clay sand, occasionally
fracturing dark blue limestone. Some of these black
shales, defining the sandy bands almost worth like poor coal, or rich authy
in cut mucous crusts.
Down to where the branch flows into a layer stream that the railway crosses are probably 700 feet more of Carey. From the bridge
to the hill daring the Capannela Sandstone is about
3/8 mile all out Carey Shales. On Oct 24 we estimated
the thickness at about 2300 feet.
There is therefore here not less than 4000 feet of Carey
and Penn.
Shales and probably there may be 5000 feet, up to the Capannela
The Capannela Limestone here about half a
mile south of mile post 463 consists of two earthy
cretaceous limestone each about 3 feet thick separated
by a blue shale one about 17 feet thick in which run
some thin cretaceous limestone. The fossils here are all
snails and especially the hygroa. There some common