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South J Carr's station.
m'th'd going to Martine.
Black shale, but not the base.
No expense for considerable interval.
5 ½ ft harder argillaceous rock,
20 ft shaly stuff, weathering soft,
16 ½ ft Massive L. thin shale, first cliff forming.
22ft chiefly massive trumitl. intruded with a little shale.
Grey chalk and white sand layers 1-2 inches
thick interbedded.
Martins
Lirca by some chitin?
atypa petularis
Chonetes murrae artica
Bryozoa trilimata, quadri?
Ostrea brisa,
Crab chalk and flints for a long distance
in taly, but original horizon
for half within 30 ft of tops.
Can't varied fauna requiring
much collecting.
Martins - North Novy 2 2R
5 ½ ft hard limestone (weathering)
5 ½ ft clay argillaceous rock
8ft hard iron-studded L.
4 ½ ft pure white limestone.
30 ft granular & t from feldspar only?
12 ½ ft silty flintiferous
11ft West Kinnin.
B ase as far as Kennon.
28 ft in terrace, supposed to be Crutcher's
Highest horizon. I get out back yard exposures
and here full of characteristic fossils.
J P J Scott.
6 ½ ft Chlor shale
1 ¾ ft Binnish phyllaceous rock.
13 ft White chalk shale
14ft hard rock like Dorrien boggs
14 ft argillaceous rock.
22 ½ ft Black shale, chlor.
> R.
District No 4 School house. Quicks
Run.
65 ½
79
11
9
11ft greenish shale - Glentany?
C ¾ ft white L. fully concrete margalimestones
68 ft upper half weathering soft & sandy
(Lower half massive limestone)
2ft full fl pebbles as at Martins.
9 ft met ma'm, 2 andy limed m.
The Glentany is overlaid by Black
shale further up.
Hill N of Grad about 200 yds E J
School, about 6 mn from Conelurg.