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"Leafield August 1st 1912, Thursday.
Started out in a buggy for Little Point and
Honey Point.
At Little Point we are in the Hurm Hull
Shales with many "kettles" = concretions up to
nearly four feet in diameter. There are many
of these kettles and all exceed two feet in
diameter and sometimes 3 can be seen in a
space of ten feet. As a rule known they are
irregularly spaced. All that we say lie
in the general zone of from 6 to 8 feet thick but
then there about are themone has here for an
example, a little cliff beside Lake Hurm.
These concretions split or weather through the
centre when one sees that the core is in a felt with
other masses. From this centre core in some struc-
ture originates and then a fine radial structure to
the outer periphery. This is a hack crystalline growth
that Williams dates as the Dawn Kende. Have some
pieces from near the periphery.
These concretions tend but the strata, and
about as much downward as upward. Around
the centre of the face the Hack Shale huts up
horizontally against the concretion. Saw no