Field Notebook: Ontario 1911, 1912
Page 31
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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,