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[[strikethrough]] These beds here with the massive gray limestone [[basalt?]] the chert are irregular. [[/strikethrough]]
Oct 31 1879
In coming up the canon noticed several illustrations of the errosion of the Silurian beds and the deposition of [[Sandstone?]] etc. prior to the [[insert]] deposition of the [[/insert]] massive gray limestone. Also local curvatures of the upper portion of the Siluvian strata.

Remeasured the chert bed three miles above using a line 105 feet + 75 feet by Locks level. = 150 feet. There are not as many fossils at this front as below & the transportation of [[strikethrough]] limestone [[/strikethrough]] chert [[/strikethrough]] + the [[/strikethrough]]is less than at previous section. The chert is light colored weathering blackly.
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Sections of the massive limestone above the chertbed near where the Lower [[Kanab?]] springs issue Arizona.

The upper portion 250 feet was measured with Locke level. The remaining portion with the line & a short distance with the level.
1 shaly, [[insert]] gray [[/insert]] limestone with pink chert and intercalated arenaceous layers.  [[right margin]] 255 [[/right margin]]
2 
Massive light gray limestone with some evenly bedded cherty layers near the summit. also at 200 feet below a band of cherty layers intercalated with this limestone.   [[right margin]] 487 [[/right margin]]
Fossils were found at various horizons but none abundantly near the summit. A species 
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