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He tells me that today he found three other
[limestone lenticles (more than twenty long)]
in the Highgate and not at all in
contact with the Drantm empy. This is to the south
of Hempstead Forest and over of the Highgate - it
Ctans road. He regards them as reef limestone-
lenticles - in the Highgate. This then falls in the
layer one of Rockledge and the large one of Corlen
Ledge. One of those found today was a little
below
the shale-limestone conglomerate seen
near the base of the Highgate formation, in the
Highgate Falls gorge. The thickness of the lenticles are 10ft to 15 feet.
The Rockledge great men of li. Heilth now
thinks lies in the Highgate. It is overlain by a
shale-conglomerate but with large limestone pieces
than in the gorge of the Highgate.
The great lenticle of the Corlen ledge lies in the
Drantm conglomerate for beneath are in the Highgate
slate.
Therefore are these great blocks are connected with
the Highgate (not the Corlens ledge one), and may well
be reef limestone formed in mud bottom seas, such
is now going on in the Mediterranean. If so the
strata were overgrown, and the bonding of the slate
has nothing to do with seasonal storms and cold
months.