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Smith's quarry. East about 1 mile from Eugene. In Miocene rocks with Mytilus Modiola, Mactra, Solen, Natica, Neverita Purpura & Lirofusus. Rock grayish sand from soft to quite hard, weathering yellowish dipping SEly about 6° covered by alluvial, upper layers broken up, lower ones more massive with several lines of specially fossiliferous rock crammed with crushed fossils mostly molds but some retaining thin lime which has however been recrystallized into spar. Thickness of rocks exposed about 37 feet but not more than 20 ft [[insertion]]are visible[[\insertion]] in any one vertical
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