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Waverly No.2 and strata.
1° Black sandy massive, =Black shale beds,
2° 6" dark rock, sandy } =rock films
1° mica shale
3° dark rock, sandy) Bladestalk
level.
No phosphatic nodules or genuine
black shale seen.
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At Old Mill, Mill Creek.
6" Sandstone like blmn, phosphatic ind.=2in.
5° 2" Sandstone =delaying b.lmn (Black Sh.)
at top of Niagara: The conegites
hemisphericus, Byf. & R. Roemer?
44° 4" Limestone, which if it soft, I
could not with certainty identify,
by any of it as variegated, Or
white and not studded in my, at top.
Just below mouth of Mill Creek is
cliff 75 feet high, Tor steep to
climb except at aids. Not
visited.
The brim sandstone layer belong-
ing below the Black Shale is exposed
from 1 mi above the mouth of
Owl Creek along the valley of OB by
Coppermine Creek as far as other OB by-
Buffalo River. Up Owl creek it is fol-
lowed ½ mi, to a small water
fall. Silurian section does not
exceed 20 feet along those valleys,
Only Roemer had seen.
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On road N of Buffalo between
Big Depression & Hype Creeks.
Sandy rock delaying blmn Black Sh.
25° Silurian section with
Astraea sp., mja, meriacus
The conegites, hemisphericus
Arthur, with varying ventral lobe
elegatula species, var. of this.
Conophyme elegans?
Streptelasma large borealis,
Pterocrinus genini /primi?/ large
Amplexus shumardi small.
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W. of Dr. Carvens, ½ mi.
Waverly
1 foot greenish ss with plants of
phosphatic nodules,
about 7 feet of SS delaying blmn
the Black shale.
Silurian, Roemer's beds.