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The fault below the grey sand.
This was first some years ago I believe more than
25 feet beneath the grey sand, buried with it.
The Red Medina maybe 40 feet thick and as I
pointed before the series comes from all sandstone at
any thing bedded sometimes
the top to almost shales films, The contact with the
Cataract formation is a sharp one - above are very
thick red sandstones with shale partings while below are
green shales that weather down into small flakes.
The little fly here is
Cataract formation - totally different from-
in them same faults
anything seen before. The upper ten feet are all
dark grey shales. There a good 2 feet with thin
fossiliferous
ajillaceous limestone followed by more grey
shales for 7 feet, then the dark bedded band
limestone. These can be seen in the gulf just
with the Medina
out of the Tunnel, The contact however is not seen
good east of the tunnel where the Medina sometimes
are thicker bedded than in the gulf stands out
sharply and boldly, See the first graph. Here the
succession is different from the gulf for it is as