Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 52
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Back again to the gap (Darran) Notice some riffles up stream The shales are 2000 ft further than the one of the section. These are also made by the white quartzite and purplish shales. Going farther east along the railroad Notice quartzose make This beach is made up of shales which are too light colored for the Hemistone. Between the crest of the hill made of the white quartzite are the Trenton limes and there in a low valley probably a quarter mile wide. It may be that these shales were taken out along here by the railroad and this surface has since passed over and has covered with erosion. If this is true then the Trenton or the E. lies below these yellowish shales, probably the Leaven. No where along here did I see any evidence of Lorr. Shale, or Orisk. A little E. of Darrans station the strata dips in direction the opposite than is usual, that is towards the W. The structure may be this