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Where the road to Basling
crosses the railroad, there
is a school house, a third
of a mile eastward is a
railroad cut. The Culm
maria bed is exposed nearly
a mile eastward in another
cut. In the present cut, the
Tetradium bed is well exposed
forming a 3 foot layer, over-
lying the banded Madison
bed. It contains also
Labeclua. The hard was
21ve rods at the top of the
Upper Silurian is at 12 feet
thick, and contains cal-
cite crystal mason. The
Clinton is 14 feet thick.
Immediately over the Clin-
ton the basal Niag ara is
formed by 4 feet of thin-
limestones and clays.
The total thickness for all
the Ozrood beds is 35 feet.
The Lame is exposed above,
how thick is not known.
The top of the Upper Ozgrad
shells found at 1150
The following is a list of fos-
sils found in the Clinton:
Orthus flabella
Ortus elegantula
Ortus bifurata
Strophomena dimidialis
Treplesia Oruni, drevival.
Streptelasma calycula
Cyathiphyllum Daglmanu
14 alcyites catenuatus,
Stomatipora concentrica.
Being from the cut west-
ward the Ozgrad section
is obtained. Crossing the
Basling road in which
the school house is situated,
the Laurel limestone is ex-
posed in a railroad cut,
and for some distance west-
ward, (1185)
a little over a mile west-
ward there is much Devon-
rian chert in the soil.
The Devonian may once
have directly overlain the
Laurel limestone low but
certainly did not work stra-
to higher than the Wal-
dum. (1200)