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(Locke level)
Upon this lie some 320 ft
4Cm harder more sandy shale
still fissile but breaking up
into larger fragments than
4B
4C contains pyrite nodules
Found fossils on the north bank
about 500 yards below the
West Shore R.R. bridge.
4d is a hard sandstone,
ligher in color than (c), and
more compact. The lower portion
(about 25 ft-) is broken up by
joints at right to the plane of depos-
ition while the upper portion
35+ft is quite free from them.
It is also well exposed along the
East side of the R.R. track.
Here most of the fossils were
collected.
2/05 3 A
5
About 1000 ft North
of the R.R. bridge is an
exposure of a light-grey
limestone, very hard,
Contains many fossils,
while 4d dips about 20 deg NW
5 is almost vertical & strikes
NE.
Numerous fine bands of
transverse section of 5
Sandstone runs through it
horizontally (parallel with plane of
deposition).
It contains many fossils
Crinoid stems corals
higher up
It also contains many flint <-