Sept 14. Spent forenoon in camp getting repairs done on carts & stores divided up. Started about 1 Pm. an hour in advance of the teams & drove on in buckboard. Intending to get in to fossil creek before the train & spend the afternoon in collecting. The train supposed to camp in the same creek. Unfortunately took the S. road which crosses the creek at a different place. Could not recognise locality, but walked N. with Crompton & Duckworth to find it. Saw the place from a distance but thinking it too late to go on so far, decided to ride round in morning & catch up train again at lunch time. Got back by buckboard & found that train had passed. Followed them & found they had gone over six miles, completely upsetting all plans.

Geol. The road passes up onto the Tertiary plateau 17 or 18 m. from White R. The edge of the plateau running as in sketch (on Ashes plan).
The beds seen at crossing of road on the 12 m. coule from White R (on the trail taken today). Sombre clays as at the other crossing. A good many baculites but mostly in hard ironstone & flattened & badly preserved. Large ironstone concretions forming layers of irregular character. Ironstone apparently very pure.

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