Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 33
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"[illegible]" Williams only grinds the [word illegible] further and I arise return to hunt for higher Richmondian forms. Casts of salt-hyphus also occur and I believe impressions of scam drup. Williams forms extend 3/4 mile where I left off and get to 128 fath higher than the ruffled zone (includes the 30 fath of left statement) where the mud has continue to rise here at the top in thin laminations he got Gyrophylla neau vintra and small trypora (see the 2 small slabs). All of these 128 fath are red beds with some green shale zones. It is evidently the last of the Richmondian m a very shallow sea flat almost on the land side. Below the ruffled beds the common forms are bygga and Hebrutella sinuata. I see no P. capax, Strep- telasma rusticum or the other only characteristic species of this formation. Later on I found a single form Stepteleism rusticum. On my second visit saw but one more f.