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HerKimer - Trenton Falls, Sep 3 - 1916
In the road-metal quarry at Herkimer we saw fine out-
crop of the LaVillette and Black River (= Leray). The two
formations rest on one another in "welded contact" (Hitchcock)
Leray
Black River = Leray, No faults of this contact.
LaVillette ||| |' |' ||| ||| 200 yards out-1/2 of line 1
contact. Probably 27' thick
Rest on Beekmantown.
Lower
At Trenton Falls, Contacted layer (Tectonic)
Shearin bedded li. beds, one half above,
The above is in the lower gone and there is but
this one occurrence. Fifty feet higher in the base
Upper Trenton the contactated beds are persistent
and may be traced for two miles along their
Canada creek. The gone is at times ten feet
thick and the moved to crushed places were
again and again. The beds above and below are
normally horizontal.
The Trenton is due, at least 268 feet thick. At the