Field Notebook: Illinois, Indiana, kentucky, Missouri, Wyoming, Pennsylvania 1909
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Base of Pottsville. Sandstone Cross bedded Same Coal ash tree Unperfect seen Olive shale Olive shale unexposed sandstone lime Coal. Olive free shale fels I have taken two views of it. Film I, 8-9. The above is in the base of the Pottsville. The Pottsville here is about 150 feet thick followed by the Mauch Chunk. The latter is ten about 100 feet thick. The remainder is in the lower Mauch Chunk. These the Local shanner "delicious limestone" a sandstone with either better or exceptions. Otherwise it has a ripple character. This is the top of the Pocono several hundred feet thick. The Poconos here must be over 700 feet thick and consists almost entirely of sandstones (micaceous). There are small cross bedded but appear to be more regularly bedded than the Pottsville. The shale goes on thin layers over 10 feet thick and one or two maybe for feet. The sands also appear to me to be more clearly washed than those of the Pottsville, and