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Section of Cliff below [[Shinarump?]] Canon.
1 Red fossil bed with characteristic fossils color [[?]] the cliff. Beneath this the beds recognized to the north as limestone with sandstone band are 4/5 arenaceous rock with chert + brown limestone                   200 feet
2.
Massive cherty limestone 
bed. Stopped 100 below by cliff. 
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North 1 mile. 
An [[indicated?]] brown sandstone
Caps the cliff back from its
edge a short distance.
Cherty limestone with a
large proportion of sand 
[[right margin]]150

2 Massive bedded cherty limestone
[[right margin]] 250
See note pg 72.
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Base of sea bed      4950
Top of sea bed -     5725
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                      875
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Sandstone with [[Calciferous?]] sd in layers [[intercalated?]].
70
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Top of limestone     5975
Base                 5725
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                      250
150
 70   [[limestone + sd ?]]
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220
 25   cal \ Lim.
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245
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Top  Gyp bed   L.L 6100 [[line beneath numbers]]         125
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Gypbed + sd.      125
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Shaly [[limestone?]], yellow passing
to gray + up to cherty.  65
Holds many fossils _
                     6200
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Massive Chertbed     [[strikethrough]] 6450 [[/strikethrough]]
              top    6425
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                      225   
+ top Chertbed         25 [[line beneath numbers]]             250
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[[written on top of previous writing]]
Canon wall 1 mile South of [[Shnino?]] Canon. Pg 66 notebook. Oct 13"1879
 

Transcription Notes:
sd = sediment? line 2 "Canon" maybe "Canyon" Not sure Caps is correct Not sure "Gyp bed" is correct Canon may be Canyon on final entry