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Sunday.
Continuation of section described
in preceding page described by
Prof. Miller. Heights are barometric.
Conglomerate gravel
Purins clerty fragments
Shale
Grey crystalline limestone
Criminal.
Clerty shaly limestone.
Dark chert or flint.
Sandy shale, more
irregular and calcareous
at top.
x Nodular layer
Black shale.
Thin bedded
Madison
Thick bedded Mad
Richmond beds
22
10
40 brams.
17
Sunday.
Certhia biforata occurs in the thick-
bedded Madison bed from 3 feet
above the base to 7 ft above the base. It
is rare but can be found. 14 specimens
were found between the anticlinal and
the place called the ripple on the map.
The branching byrgans are found
from 5 feet above the same to 7ft 10 inches
above the same, 15 specimens found.
The globular byrgans are found
from 5.2 feet to 6.2 feet above the base
of the heavy Madison beds.
Considering the fact that the heavy
Madison beds are 9 ft 2 inches thick
time, it will be seen that five Siluria
fossils are found through its entire
thickness. Moreover the thickbedded
Madison is lithologically the same
as the overlying thin bedded Madison,
but the thin layers hang together and
therefore have a total massive effect
and break off in larger masses from
the cliffs. Hence the beds are often 1 inch
thick while the beds of the thin bedded
Madison are often only ½ inch thick.
Note the absence of the 26 inch blue
limestone layer (R) from above the
Madison. This denotes that the Black
Shale does not lie on the top of the
Madison, one of the Madison having
been removed by erosion.
The Richmond beds contain chiefly
Certhia biforata, and hyrgans.
Certhia occidentalis is rather uncommon.