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These upper green shales I saw yesterday at
Limehouse are only six feet thick and there as here
are abundant in flinty - greens with dolerona.
Then follow below red decidedly ferruginous
shaly limestone with some shale gnes having a
united thickness of 3 ft. It is these layers that
I yesterday got most of my fossils out of.
Below follow a thick series of green shales
with occasional gnes of limestone. There is prob-
ably 35 feet of this decidedly one shale
material followed below by about 15 feet of
decidedly green limestone with green shale
faintings. This Part has usually spoken of
as the Clinton.
Below this is about 72 feet of heavy bedded
and decidedly crumbbed
ruffled sandstone just as one sees in the
Chigara gorge.
Then Richmond - Queenstown red beds.
The sandstone has been widely quarried at
the Forks of the Credit and all along the
Cuesta from here to Limehouse. As a rule