From Image 10 and 11 - Middle Tonoloway. This is the second likely reef in the outcrop. Below, just above the drainage culvert, are well sorted, packed biosparites, but just up section is the layer of convolution/slumping, or what ever. I have tried to figure this out for years, but we will take it as a penecontemporaneous (at the time of, or shortly after, deposition) event. On top of it then is the tabulate/stromatoporoid layers. Tablate/strom associations are usually associated with the upper most (layer 4) of a reef structure, because they are strong enough to stand the pounding of the waves. (Images 49, 37, 38)
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In the image to the right are the stromatoporoids (NOT stromatolites). Hard to see, but are composed of fine concentric laminations of skeletal calcite, and not micrite.
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