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"Just above the mouth of Circus Creek the
following section was exposed:
Rest of section above this same as at Rock House.
12 ft, limestone,
57 feet Maranby
3 ft. thin limestone,
Lower Wavely seen to be absent.
35 ft. of Black Shale, No nodules.
Prof. Miller found one.
4 3/4 ft. heavy limestone, with chert nodules.
8 1/2 ft. thin bedded clayey Madian.
8 1/2 ft not exposed,
80 ft. of clayey limestone,
(Overdr - Madian towards
middle trip) with fossils,
A. This is the layer at top of Rock
House Lower Silurian, so it at the
base or top of the 20ft. of limestone
exposed above Fowler's Landing.
Just West of Circus Creek is a strong
westward dip of the rocks, there
given the oil wells were once situated.
The Oil bubbles up, part of the time,
and the wells are sunk 700 feet
in the northern river bank.
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3) Views of the westward dipping
4) rocks at the oil wells. Of them
5) is an anticline here the east-
ern side of the anticline is not
seen here.
A little farther west a layer
corresponding perhaps to the mass
ive Madian at the base of the
Madian, and almost immediately
overlying beds containing
fossils, contains either gun-flints
in clay, pebbles of about the same
character. The fact that all the
pebble, dead about the size suggests
that they are nodules! Found
21 feet above river, Nodules 3-3/4
inches in diameter, 2 in. thick.
Thin bedded Madian 17 feet thick
immediately above,
fronted as with chert nodules over
this.