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fire have been considerable.
The top of the Clinton was
seen at 9 02. The Beograd
beds were therefore at least
20 feet thick, probably 25-ft.
The face of the Beograd beds is joined
by a rubble of lime. The Beograd
Super Beograd Shale is at least
25 feet thick. The Beograd
limestone is 5ft 6in thick.
75
About a mile and a quarter S.W.
to S.W. from Balltarn, on the
north side of Sanding Run
the base of the Clinton is seen
at 885. The Clinton is about
13 feet thick. The hard
massive rock at the top
of the Super Silurian is 6ft
4 inches thick.
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A third of a mile south-east
of Balltarn the face of the Black
Shale is seen at 940. It rests
on the Sandal limestone.
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Half a mile north-west of
Balltarn, in a little
shrub bed, the top of
the Clinton is seen at 9 04.
The Clinton is 14 to 17 feet
thick. The drift comes
in owing to the imprecision
ability to distinguish the
Clinton from the hard
rock at the top of the Super
Silurian. This would
place the top of the Super
Silurian at 890. The Clinton
contains Streptodonta
etc at a + Septacena (illegible)
81
Less than 3 miles south-east
of Balltarn, at the junction
between the Black Shale and
Super Sub-Carboniferous, the
characteristic nodular layer is
seen at 1020.
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About 3 ½ miles south-east
of Balltarn, a short distance
before meeting a north and
south road, the base of the
Black Shale is seen at 932.
It rests on about 15 inches of
a dark brown fine grained
mud, and this on the grey 4ft
cribridal Carboniferous. Only
1-2 feet of the grey crinoidal
rock was seen, although
there may have been more. The
Sandal limestone was too
weather.