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seen in one large slab. The Coral bed and associated beds may be 
about 5' Thick. Above the coral bed about 10' appears a foot of shaly 
limestone, [float] to the top of hill has limestone with [?] and a 
[pumkyjreddish sands tone. The limestone (coral) forms a bench about 
30' below the top of the hill at about 470' El. 
[[left margin]] [[image: drawing of soil profile]] 
Shaly Is 1' 
10'? covered 
coral bed 1-2' 
Tropidoleptus 3' 
Shale & cherty shaly Is 20'± 
[[/left margin]] 
Coral bed itself is 1-2': Under are 3' gray finely granularids with 
Tropidoleptus. 
What I call coral bed is crowded with digitate favosites, & cup corals. 
The 3' bed under the coral bed also contains corals but they are more 
scattered. 
Coral bed = 661 05A; bed with Tropidoleptus and scattered corals = 
661 05B. Chert is unevenly distributed among the two limestone beds. 
This bed and associated layers strongly suggest the coral bed under 
shale & cherty Is seen at 66103 just north of the entrance to the ravine 
beside the road up the hill to Ridge School. The Wittenberg occurrence 
is thus low in the St. Laurent rather than high and there is no Lingle here 
G. Arthur Cooper - Field notes, 1966 
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