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Transcription
"These holes are without transition sharply
upon a firm (4) foot bed of limestone that is hard
and crystalline, with distinct crinoidal fragments,
and other undeterminable fossils. Beside some
stylolite goes. Below this limestone gradually
changes into an arenaceous li, without
foots. Just what the foot represented could not
make out but it resembles partly the Clinton
limestone of the Virginia range. Decorah
Clinton. This li. rests sharply upon the thin
bedded Clinton magnesian with green shale
footings. There in from 1/2 to 1 1/2 of green shale
just below the limestone. There are 10 feet
at the base from Permainous Magnesian Medina
of these beds and then forms a 2 foot zone
of completely reworked and showing the crinoidal
crests, combs of Archthycaeus archimedes
that on the lower or under face show A.
harlani. Then 4 feet of thin bedded
green sandstones and shales. Below follows 10 to
12 feet of a creamy crushed dark mottled
sandstone. This is the basal Medina member,