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[[underlined]] Add. notes on Core #14[[/underlined]] - 4500-4525'

Larger forams from bottom of top piece sent to Cole as sample AA = 6/6/62.
These forams are scattered through many parts of the core but never in abundance. Small oyster (in vial) from 16th oriented piece from top; fragment of Pecten from 17th - both orig. shell

Sent Sample BB from 13 oriented piece from top to Cole 6/6/52 - has large forams and small globular type.

Both Eocene [[underlined]]b[[/underlined]] - BB has few [[discoelynids?]] - Cole 6/19/52

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Transcription Notes:
foram - (shortened version of Foraminifera) any chiefly marine protozoan of the order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend Eocene - noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 55 to 40 million years ago and characterized by the advent of the modern mammalian orders.