Field notes, undated
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"Filling of tubes," "Ceratosoma spinae" "tubes accumulated" "Syringopora not accumulated" [illegible] "Honeycomb beds not washed out" "Top of hill south of Sample R." "at new" "chocolate colored sandstone." "These are more or less" 27 ft shaly brown sandstone, (27 ft limestone, Bed E 14 ft Covered. Orbital limestone. 55 ft soft bluish clay shale, except at top Bed D 8-9 ft massive blue cl. fossils few clays near the top. 2ft. Shaly thin bedded sandstone, more fossil. No fossils, purple to reddish top. More greenish. 25 ft soft clay shales, reddish Agassiz crinoids flat in situ, near the top. Near the top is except in these layers, especially shelly, crinoidal fossils few. 33 ft gray massive limestone. Bed C near the middle, messy gray into a sort of limestone [7ft 3in bluish sandy shale, bluish] 5ft 6in shaly brown ss. 3ft 3in crinoidal limestone. B 15 ft in covered. RR level at Sample. "Syringopora = A"