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Jn this section some of the common species of the Pogonip 
fauna of the Eureka District were found in No,3, but none of the 
characteristic Trentpn fossils* The latter occur in No.d, nearly 
iso feet above the quartzite. 
This section is unbroken, extending from the south base 
of puartz P8ak to its summit, and is on^ of the best that I met 
with in southern Nevada. 
The position of the Trenton fossils 
above the quartzite 
is unmistakable. 
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The Trenton horizon is, as at 
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yet 300 feet may be referred to it. 
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he limestone below the 
quartzite at Quartz Peak is the upper part of the Pogonip group of 
the Eureka and White Pine sections. -Other outcrops of the Eureka 
quartzite were observed, most notable of 
h is that on the road 
to Hyko going west from Bennett'’s Springs* just before the road 
nesses out of the hills on the elopes leading down to Dry take. At 
ibis point a conical hill formed of this bedded limestone is capped. 
I the typical Eureka quartzite* The limestone below gave the 
haradbeblHie Upper Pogonip fauna. Another locality where the 
jgonip limestone occurs in beds Is Bond or Gallon on the road from 
a 
onaea to Rose Valley, Nevada. The cafton cuts through massive 
fit of limestone which dips 3b® East with a nearly north and south 
