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the mass stability. This bed is remarkably uniform in texture and free from pebbles or other fragments and showing no trace of fossils. It is on the whole more horizontal than the sandstones and visible over not to exceed half a mile of the section. Over it are the same coarse gravels which cover the schists, but here the gravels seem almost a quite conformable to the sandy bed. The fossils collected were obtained at the first outcrop of sandstone on the railroad cutting west of the track on the way from Redding to Middle Creek
Very few have any of the lime of the shells preserved; a Volutilithes or allies shell much resembling [[underlined]] Y. rugatus [[/underlined]] externally  rather long (2 m.) and spirally sulcate showed the most.

Transcription Notes:
sulcate = marked with parallel grooves.