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My Crooked creek,
Sinking Springs road-
x 2 ft, Chalky limestone
3 ft massive limestone
4 ft clay shale,
15 ft, Massive limestone,
SWg Sinking Springs, at
Homeland and two localities,
Both bridge and base
of Bishka east of body,
are 21 feet above
creek (~7.25 ft above river
level) = 746 ft for
bridge level.
Of 95 ft indicated ag. layer 762
Lingledepo = 27 feet
above bridge level 773
of indicated ag 15' layer,
37 feet above bridge, massive
limestone, white clay with
Cladspora was base.
granular
783
58 feet to top of massive
ledge,
804
64 feet = base of next
massive ledge 810
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73 feet to top of this
massive L. while
may be base near at.
819
78 ft. Base of small cliff
much decorated
824
96 ft to top of Marble ridge
Halysite nexus
842
small celled Favosites
Stromatoporoid.
First road N of East exposure
16 ft above bridge is
richly fossiliferous
cherty horizon.
Bridge = 758 + 16 = 774
for Lingledepo.
Base of Bishka was
indicated clay layer
at this road nearly
1/2 mi N of Homeland
locality ~
755
Going E from bridge 758
the course of mined rock
with Cladspora begins
at 784
This coarse grained
rock is exposed on-