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7/26/59
Section 4A.
Examined the middle of King's Sect. 12, Lenox Hills, and remeasured it in part,
see book [King 1930 section].
Then drove to Hess-Hall boundary fence and measured from road north to the
top of the ridge and across the rolling slopes about 400 yards.
Section along Hess-Hall boundary fence.
1) Limestone, dark gray, silicified fossil hash, 3' to 6' beds.
--------- - about 20'.
2) Covered, probably siliceous shale. -------- - 126'.
First Word limestone:
3) Limestone, medium-gray, finely laminated, very silty with bands of brown
siliceous replacement, lenses of fossiliferous calcarenite, (Collection 10' from
top) --------- 84'.
4) Dolostone, "dirty" gray, 5' beds, a yellow weathering limestone 6" about 20'
up - -----40'.
Second Word limestone:
5) Shale, red-brown weathering ------ 10'.
6) like 4 below - ----about 30'.
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7/27/59
Dugout Mt. Section
Section 7 - dip 14°WNW.
Siliceous siltstone below.
1) Limestone, medium gray weathering, 1' to 2' beds, bands of brown silica,
fossil hash, conglomerate, chert pebbles up to 1" diameter -------- 24'.
2) Limestone, medium gray, lenses of shell hash up to 6' thick, silicified
nodules common.
Collection 7-2[-A] -- 3' up.
Becomes interbedded with blue-gray calcarenite upwards - Collection 7-
2-B --31' up.
Shale breaks at 35' and 40'. Total -------- 53'.
3) Shale, siliceous with chert bands, and thin limestone calcarenite ---------
8'.
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4) Calcirudite, brown weathering, 6" cobbles in 4' beds and shale, siliceous,
red-brown in 6' beds calcarudite has abundant silicified corals -------- 27'.