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At the landing place of the village Bogorodskoie, a little above 

 the mouth of the Kama, the following is a section of the right bank. 



P 3 — Light red and brownish red marl. 

 P 2 — Greenish gray marl. 



Gray limestone, finely stratified with brown spots, contain- 

 ing casts of conchifers. 



Brown, friable sandstone, with white strata. 



Finely stratified gray marl. 



Boulders. 



The beds, which are hidden by boulders, are shown a short dis- 

 tance below. 



P 2 — Finely stratified grayish limestone, .... 0"75 m. 



Friable sandstone, 075 



Gray marl, 0'25 



Boulders 2"5 



Between the above two outcrops, in a rocky promontory, are 

 shown : 



P 2 — Finely stratified, gypsiferous limestone, soiling 



the fingers, 0*5 m. 



Finely stratified, grayish limestone, with remains 



of conchifers, 2- 



Gray clay marl, interstratified with gypsum, and 

 containing many specimens of Lingula orien- 



talis 0'5 



Gray oolitic limestone, abounding in fossils char- 

 acteristic of the Zechstein, 10*5 



A limestone analogous to the last crops out immediately at water 

 level at 2-3 wersts above Bogorodskoie. 



Near to the landing place at Kozmodemiansk, on the Volga, the 

 following section was made : 



P 3 (PT) — Light red marl with greenish and gray 



beds, 15* ra. 



Light gray sandstone, 2* 



Reddish brown marl with greenish gray beds, 3" 



Brownish gray friable sandstone, 1* 



Boulders, 1* 



Boulders beneath which appear a gray marl, . 6" 



The right bank of the Volga between Kozmodemiansk and Nijni- 

 Novgorod. — Here are found upper Permian, Mesozoic and Post- 



