Field Notebook: Ontario 1911, 1912
Page 41
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"24 inches thick made of mud-talls that have rolled up during a storm. Between the Oredina sandstone and the Lockport there is here not a trace of the lifter Anthus phyus [illegible] Oredina, none of the thin bedded Clinton (10 feet), of the thick Clinton limestone (4 feet), or any of the Rochester Shale (30 feet). In other minds 44 feet of Nia- garan beds are here out. Then for the Oredina at Stjornitz is 16 feet thick while here at Hamil- ton it is only 8 feet thick. Below the Oredina appears the Cataract Formation, at the top are 5 feet of green shale and then follows damorud red argillaceous sandstones that abound in Stelpria. Below are more red shales with an occasional sandstone for about 10 feet in depth. Below are more green shales with an occasional arenaceous limestone of which one could make out along the road side about 10 feet more. The uppermost beds are well shown alny