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The Chilton is terminated by the Chilton
conglomerate and opposite the Electric Power House
in the north bank of the Mississippi one can see
the erodics in it that must be said 7 feet lay.
These are the largest boulders or far seen in the
Chilton conglomerate. I was inclined to call it
the Drantan conglomerate but Keith says it is
"des Chilton conglomerate." In this conglomerate the
paste is dolomite and without the rounded sand
gains and the marble like white limestones, while
the Drantan conglomerate has in the dolomite paste
a great abundance of rounded sand grains.
There ought to more said about the Chilton bed.
Then went south to the big white limestone
exposure in the Drantan conglomerate. This is on
the Paddock farm of Doctor Janisen of N.Y.
This big mass of Kellstone is certainly 135 by
110 foot and probably 10 feet thick. It may actually
be 170 x 110 x 10 as Keith thinks. This room
clear lies upon the Highgate muddy slate and
all around its northern, eastern are certain outcrops
can see the Drantan conglomerate wedging into it.
In some places it is the limestone conglomerate but
north after it is the Georgia clay slate with