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may-7-89 A1054 C
On land of Andrew Widdagh
about 2 1/2 miles N.W. of
Marbletown.
They are exposed along the
N. bank of the Eoopus C. and
form a Bluff 100ft (eye estine) high.
1- The rock is a fossiliferous
coarse armaceous sandstone and
contains many rounded con-
cretionary masses which are
much harder than the rock itself,
dip = 3° W 30° N.
100 ft further dip = 6° W 35° N.
The lower 28ft are barren
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3 20 ft-
2 3 ft -
1 28 ft
1 and 2 are barren
3 contains fossils
The creek bed turns a point
1/2 mile above here to
Blue City is worn into the
Hamilton? Paringstone grit.
This extends on westwardly to
Phinicia ? and Roxbury.
2- is 3 ft of alternating hard sandstone
which subsist - the weathering and
bands of sandstones like No 3.
No 3 - 17 1/2 ft of dark grey sand-
stone breaking first into blocks
and then into thin layers.
It is full of fossils. Brachiopod
chiefly a Rhynchonella and Lamelli-
and Orthocerata.