Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
Page 66
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Section on Germantown Pike about 1/2 mile East of National Soldiers Home Ground. On edge of scarpment of Miami river. Glacial drift 3 to 4 fat. Or muddgy Drone gellrock regular bedded li. 4" Bluish nodular li, with some shale 12" Or muddy Impure gellrock regular bedded li. 20" Irregular bedded then li with much shale, clothes The deposit of most of the fossils, 36" Irregular bedded crinoid and crystalline li. Becoming very and more heavy bedded downward. Or shale, Fossils throughout but most come from near the center. About 8 fat. Contact with Richmondia not shown in the quarry, but a little down the road it may be seen. Contact by slope for direct parallels. The white is a shallow water deposit and shows more action than that. The fossils are almost rolled and the shells separates valves. The sea became shallower towards the close, seen in the shale horizon followed by the muddy limestones.