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of Cretaceous age.  Inoceramus is the most common.  Bacidites, Ancella, Ammonites, Trigonia, Pecten, Liopistha? and others occur also remains of a crab.  In some of the layers near the beach were rounded whitish pebbles containing the same fossils as the matrix.  These strata are moderately inclined (Dip [[space]] Strike [[space]] ) and the beach is largely composed of the flattish mud cracked surfaces of some of them which run out at low water a long distance.  The NE head of the entrance shows bluffs of limestone sandstone & conglomerate containing rolled pebbles, both pebbles & matrix containing the same fossils.  These bluffs are much higher than those on the mainland side and above the NE end of Chisik Id rises to a magnificent castellated summit of curiously eroded 

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Inoceramus is a fossil