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alright now these days rocks could have gotten
where they are moved by ice action. In this connection,
we see not the slight evidence of ice action, nor strange
rocks off shore if the immediate formations.
The great flood of L. C. mantle rests very irregu-
laf upon the Upper Millton Then dedded lie. Priddle
20m had a ledge with fossils and finally we all
concluded that those beds are in place and that
upon it rest the great Flood. I then broke area for
near the towns and gathered a number of fossils,
among which Agnostus is most conspicuous. All
reminded me of the middle fossil zone of the Upper
Millton, and this then led to the view that the
U. Millton is here in place. Before I told Keith then
d he was holding the beds to be the paste filling in
the space underneath the great Flood.
The shale beneath those Upper Millton li. and
owing the great flood are therefore Middle Cambria.
There is a great width of those slate terminated
to the west by the then basal part of the Lower
Millton. Priddle and Keith collected a few fossils
and when down there concluded they were of On.