Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
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mational character, saw no Tetracrinus in any of the tubes and not even in any of the Lons- dville limestone. At Little Falls the Precambrian rocks rise above the river level. In May 200 feet in the railway car near the station of the N.Y.C.R.R. on the opposite side of the river we saw contact with the sedimentary in Little Falls in the rail- way just east of the first line station. Where the trough of fer in a their reddish shale looking material -- could not got close this to see the detail. The Little Falls dolomite about 10 to 25 feet above the base is full of coarse well rounded sand and iron pebbles of 1/2 inch. The Cystozoma bed comes in high off the cliffs and probably more than 100. feet above the base. At Little Falls just above the granite in a Paell sandy shale Ray- mond some years ago collected Lepidus acu- minota On the top of the hill faced of Little Falls we again saw the Amsterdam li, full of John- Anna and with pieces of the Bridge li! This