Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
Page 109
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August 13-1920 Friday. A dark-foggy morning and before I got to New- York it came hard and big. After seeing something of the fireworks we went to East Point to see the Penjator Cliffs. Fine clean refrains along the sea front. Here are the jetties and boulders are much drawn out, usually thicker in the center with the abs drawn out and often into sharp edges. The boulders often have lengths of 3 feet and 1 foot thick. Done on layer. The jetties and boulders are as a rule for white quartzite and a milky white other stone probably also a quartzite. The cement is a coarse greenish sandstone. At times there is much greenish sandy shale and it draws out most. All of the boul- ders have some kind of slicken siding and where there is much sand cement the whole looks in the appearance of a schist. There are also dark or blue-black fine sandy shale pieces. Saw no granite or schist. Second time I thought I saw Perlitus and near edges of martialite brochi forms. Ray- mond found two boulders with lignites, and these