Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 10
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
"whole without a trace of forms other than ? [illegible] (may be higher Cresmans) ? [illegible]. Another interruption and the unpridifurum sandy shales and shale sandstone which may be the Ostracans. The thickness appears to be one foot and the beds are Romney shales oval twisted. Then follows stone other of [then twisted] the Jockey block shales, making to a pinkish- gelling. Hotel Back of the Patterson house, at which I am staying can be seen what appears to be the [illegible] and Coggmans or part of the a [x] Lewis'own formation. Above a portion of the summer house, I have seen the same heavy beds of limestone as in the railroad cut with crimsoned matter followed downward by deep blue beds really cement lods. I then saw a few Leporidites ? or species much smaller than L. altus. The design seems to be [x] the upper Marlins, or some Coggmans.