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Owen Sound August 17th 1912, Saturday.
N.E.
Georgian Bay.
Niagara plain
Clinton plain
Owen Sound City east
Clinton
Richmond red clay
River
Richmond red clay
West Owen Sound
City
Clinton scarp 20-30 feet
Clinton flat.
Niagara scarp, 50-60 feet.
Upper Niagara level,
in west Owen Sound.
The Niagara escarpment extends not more than
50 to 70 feet and consists of heavy bedded fine-
gained dolomite of a light grey color. It is the "white
rock" of local quarry men while the Clinton is known
to them as the blue rock. There but few recognizable
fossils and the cavities are very small. Of fossils