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and in a park in north part F, D. in
the upper F. D. limestones a few ammonites.
The ammonites are here very common but
no horn fragments one can present since
all were gathered up to make ornamental
stone work in a Hamm Hatch, In real
every case the only whole - living chantu-
is hidden away, otherwise the specimens
would be about 20 inches or even more in
diameter. I saw almost no other fossils.
The bird bone sandstone appears like
The cement appears like lime.
fine grained
inclined only at the top. It is a fresh sand
with broken shells though lenses occur
made up of shells. It is a firm bedded
fine sand with green of black shale that
locally are lignites full of plant fragments,
from many of those black shale there are
shells and clams, but saw 2 or 3. Near the
tip of the barn thing then is cementing
some reflect with small fissures. The
whole smoothers down in a loose sand that
washes away leaving the surface around