Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 35
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Transcription
Late, Estonia singularis, Puncularia of wat are [illegible] the common form. The ore seems from 10 to 13 feet thick and is underlain by a coarse silt sandstone and a quartzite. The ore itself and the grne from which it is taken shows shmy water percolation and concentration since the stratification of the Oriskany is very irregular and the ore also breciated and rematerially iron. Undoubtedly small cones were formed, all the calcareous matters taken away, the spaces filled in and all neces- sarily iron deposits. This is the Low Moor Iron Co. Just how thick the Oriskany is I could not and the iron limiting grne determine but it is not less than 35 feet. Storming the Berecft but how far could not be determined. In the Romney iron Stylidina, Liochynchus Panetle, Beyrich's and a small Ostracod globie with a small depression in the margin near the center. Putting all the observations together I seem to get the following section: