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Salt Spring Hollow Revisited 
[[left margin]] 400b [[/left margin]] Numbering as in section of 1942 
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1 1/2' E = 6659 = 400f 
9-10' F 6658 = 400e 
13'{ 5 ' 6" D 6657= 3 - 5' = 400d 
6656=bottom 2' = 400c 
C T covered - 
B 1' hard irregularly bedded Ir. = 6655 = 400b - large Spinifer 
A 2' covered 
gray dolomite 
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A - Between Sil dolomite & lowest 
Devonian is covered interval of 
2'. A consists of 1'+ a covered 
interval of about one foot 
B. starts with limestone like 
A. I would add two together 
White chert common at 5' also Schuchertella. 
Upper 6' with fewer fossils 
less chert. This shaly Ir is earthy gray and 
weathers yellow. 
F. 9- 10' of hard crinoidal limestone 
with corals, brachiopods, a Cyrtina 
That is umbonate. Rock has some 
yellow sandy debris = 400e 
E - Quartz so full of fossils - corals 
brachiopods all broken apart 
Upper surface with burrows. Ss 
iron stained = 6659 
Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center, 
G. Arthur Cooper - Field notes, 1 966 
Transcribed and Reviewed by Digital Volunteers 
Extracted Nov-02-2015 11:09:05 
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