Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 51
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(see next page) This face is equal with large pieces of the Clinton, from one end to the other up about 1000 foot and some miles. There are ledges quartzite between and are dips about 20° to 15 feet. These thin and heavy beds of quartzites are certainly the Mananattins and are marked with pinkish and greenish streaks. The slabs are sandy shales and some are iron bearing and have various markings like mud-flakes are a peculiar countryman Archiphycus harlani. The hillside continues to here at red shale for 200 yards more then the difference in general form pieces of Trenton limestone with Plantanites occurs. At grade port @ 37½ the heavy ledged slaty limestone and r. the quarry E of Effleton affords a little quarry R and the outcrops of dolomite & clay at Channing. Looking back up the Mus River from here are thru/ the gap there appears to be conformable sequence. The crest of the here is made by the quartzite, the red shales being with Archiphycus and Phyllopodus followed by the Trenton limestone. However if the quartzite in the Mananattins and is merely below the old shales then the Outcrops beds are southwards. At Genhatawara the Red shales are above the white quartzite. The following seems to be the case. (see another interpretation on) Trenton.