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Smith Reef Light House June rain
June 14. Sunday
three miles east of the Light
Started out for the Jumps, where the
contact between the granular crinoidal li-
mestone, Richardson F, and the thin
bedded blue limestone and shale, Division
F, may be seen. Many fossils are to be
had but all are in slabs.
The lower part of F is regularly bedded
light colored limestone with green shale
facing. Blue Farroites famous in the
shells rarely more than 1/2 inch thick al-
of 2 to 3 feet diameter is the common
fossil. With this also occurs Ptychophyllum
Alveolata, Stromatopora, very rare Dolostone.
Gradually the crinoids are displaced by the
crinoids and then the limestone or nearly
crinoide until near the top where a few
other fossils may be picked up. The crinoids pre-
dominate the fauna to the crinoid plus a clermontian sea,