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On the Ordovician are precisely unconformably
lies the Carboniferous limit of the Madron age.
This is all that can be seen in the Camp at the
point of observation.
On the way back to camp I ascended one of
the highest Tertiary hills and looked back towards
the Camp. This view shows a regular succession
beginning on the left with the granites and passing
to the right through Cambrian, Ordovician, Car.,
Trias, Jura, and some Rautin. All of these
strata have a very uniform dip to the
right and are outlined both in the foreground
and in the distance by Tertiary Lake deposits.
I have sketched this view and have sketches as
seen from a high Tertiary hill between camp and
the Camp.
In the evening those talks with various mem-
bbers. Mr Lawson tells me the granite has joints
after exposure to air and shows no decomposition.
It had been second class of all its decomposed
and. Over this lies the so-called Cambrian bed,
at the base, coarse conglomerate from towns