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"In the afternoon walked out along the railway
[illegible]
From five above the base of the brick up to some
undetermined distance continue grit and sedimentary hearl
which maybe regarded as the Lorraine shales. Where
then is a gradual introduction of argillaceous limestone
that gradually becomes thicker and more abundant the
higher one gets. Probably 40 feet above the base of the
Lorraine the limestones have Ambonychia radiata,
Arctidiscus concentricus and only Or. falcadi formis.
In physical characters these beds are just like those
at Clay Cliff only there are here fewer limestones and
the gruelite is far less abundant. I take these beds
to be about middle Lorraine and about the same
horizon as the one collected in at Clay Cliff. It must
be in these beds that Whittaker got "Catalogus erratic"
On Sunday, dark and threatening once rain
so that drove home to work on the Section
Tomorrow,