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Sunday July 30, '79.
Set C
2. View of synclinal just below
mouth of Rennix Creek. There
were formerly oil wells here. The
Big Dancer can well was sunk
into the bed of this creek,
A short distance above Bakerstown
Landing, where a stream of water
runs out the cliff sides into a
small stream, towards the hill
summit, a considerable number
of limestone payments, peatly cherty,
are found, and contain the same
fossils as those found at Fowler's Land-
ing. (For fossils see 6th page preceding.)
At Bakerstown Landing, up the cliff
just above the Landing, the lower
shaly Madison rocks are well ex-
prired near the upper part of the cliff
section which is free from limestone. The
top part of the cliff section free from
rocks, formed by about 4 feet of lime-
stone with chert nodules (Rock House)
beneath are quite a number of feet of thin-
bedded limestones, excellently shaly
in places. Above this occurs several feet
(4?) of fossiliferous limestones con-taining the same fossils as those found
at Fowler's Landing. Above an about
10-12 feet of thin bedded rock, in which
are thin siliceous curious beds, like
siliceous layers Lyellia until examined.
The Black shale probably once oc-curred immediately above this,
Just above the mouth of Rennix Creek
the following section is shown:
Base Black Shale 620?
Black Shale?
5 6½ feet. thin bedded limestones
+ clayey limestone.
1½ ft. heavy limestone, Lancellibrand
2 ft. of dark shaly limestone, a clay, B
18 ft. 9 in. thin bedded limestone + shale A
5 ft. Rock House limestone with chert nod.
14 ft. clayey shale, thin layers.
A. Main part of section consists chiefly
of thin bedded clayey shales, but lower
part and upper part of section con-sists of thin bedded limestone, easily
breaking up along the bedding. The upper
½ feet of these rocks partially formed
part of the 4 feet of limestone inclu-ded in the upper 4 feet of at one sepa-rated from the 20 feet of limestone at
Fowler's Landing under the name
of the fossiliferous beds.
B. With Orthis occidentalis, Amhomy-chia radiata, Pterinea obliquata.
C. This limestone is very fine grained-
it still belongs to first limestone beds.
Laureasat
Fowler's Land.
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