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"472, 73. Mouth of St. Johns River
Water from Daring Wells.
Bed E, 50 ft. Sandstone.
11 ft soft clay shale, Ostrac.
D 14ft mine massive fine grained l.
1/4ft limestone fine gr. interlaid with clay.
Bed 5 to get it's where it with Ostracite shales
C 22ft flinty gray l, fossils
10 ft very exposed clay shale,
5-3 ft clay shale to top of bed.
16-2 ft ground clay.
10 ft redclay clay
7 ft greenish soft clay + arg. shale.
5 1/2 ft shale and thin bedded ss.
9 ft thin bedded shaly ss.
1ft mine massive ss.
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8 in. mine massive ss.
1ft 10 in shale as.
4 in mine massive ss
5 in shale firm as.
3 ft soft clay shale, thick.
Bed 1/2 ft limestone, Ostracites, fossils collected,
B 32 ft sticky ss + a few hard ss. layers,
11ft soft clay shale,
2 1/2 ft soft clay shale,
8 ft fairly hard ss. & some thin bedded as.
18 1/2 ft soft blue clay shales.
22 ft not exposed.
27th ft first exposed to bridge level.
5th Garfield St. top not seen.
6ft A 11ft Holly St. base not seen.
Tertiary gravel at 860-870
at 11:30 AM.
Tuesday, Aug 27, 1907
ss. layers, very exposed.
Clay shale, soft, hard, thick.
Mine ss., not well exposed.
Bed E