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Tuesday
Sep. 16-1902 McInticks, Va.
Started out with a buggy for Mountain Grove.
After passing through the gap just S of Germantown,
and after two miles across the Middle Ocrinco came
upon the following exposure over the three forks of the
wagon road. It is the crest of low anticline.
Romey
Dip SE 10°-15°
Oxidley
Beeroff.
Cross heavy Oxidling SS.
Sand A. across a
then pale red sandstone to
2d foot
Jenny killed out over
Course SS at top, under
Was healed with
sandstone hard seam
limestone discontinuous
Q. as muck, Rye aquiline
Pebble 50 ft
and clay th
Other Quartz
20 foot
Common
Quartz
Rough
The wagon road here cuts through a low dome. All the
here
roll looks so much alike that Ostrin mistook it
from Oxidley from Beeroff. Its sandy nature
here is striking, more so than at Crumpton.
Across Jackson mill and up the slope of Boiler
ridge the Oxidley are most of the Beeroff are shown. Here also
the two formations look alike. In the Oxidley str. I observed
In late as Ostrin assimilar in muscular.