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71. - at Braasfield
Black Shale.
1/2 ft brecciated
4 " same fossils over chert
1/2 ft bluish stone earthy
" Oozed clay, Blue Clay
- is seen in R&R cut nearby,
this part 8 inches over depth of
preceding section.
72. 10:00 NE of Irvine,
56 1/4 ft No exposure except at top: foot
56 ft Merthyr & Cardiff shales, in tuffs
Shear but some in artesian sample.
then a sandstone of fragments of
210 ft Chazy gray below up to 100 ft
Glabic nodular layer
7 ft rock, grey clay shale same phm
49 ft Hard clay with bit above + bit at the
2 & 1/2 ft red. Clay from stone at top.
11 1/2 at top is flinty clay weak layers
gather in shaly
Below very dirty or extra part
at the top greyish clay
3 8 ft [illegible] clay nodules, some run
13 ft grey shale, iron stains at top,
up to this level 5-1 inches thick
5ft. plinplate nodules scattered
Shale
95/2 ft from road to top of Black
Base of Black Shale not
seen