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66 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. [[line]] 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. [[end page]] 67 [[inserted smaller page]] Base of sea bed 4950 Top of sea bed - 5725 [[line beneath numbers]] 875 [[line across page]] Sandstone with [[Calciferous?]] sd in layers [[intercalated?]]. 70 [[line across page]] Top of limestone 5975 Base 5725 [[line beneath numbers]] 250 150 70 [[limestone + sd ?]] [[line beneath numbers]] 220 25 cal \ Lim. [[line beneath numbers]] 245 [[line across page]] Top Gyp bed L.L 6100 [[line beneath numbers]] 125 [[line across page]] Gypbed + sd. 125 [[line across page]] Shaly [[limestone?]], yellow passing to gray + up to cherty. 65 Holds many fossils _ 6200 [[line across page]] Massive Chertbed [[strikethrough]] 6450 [[/strikethrough]] top 6425 [[line across page]] 225 + top Chertbed 25 [[line beneath numbers]] 250 [[/inserted smaller page]] [[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