Field Notebook: Maine, New Hampshire 1925
Page 92
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Transcription
"Berkely is a very difficult area to record. Difficult not because of the faultly and thrusty ad folding, but all the more so because the moments have continued all things Pleisto- cene time of to now. During this time erosion has cut out much and White mesa closed tighter together. Over a basal thrusting layer of cmyl. replite with broken shells of Ostrac Titan. The fossils ranged up to a fair miles across, all well arm- ded, in masses of coarse sand. This layer was hardly three feet thick, and the oysters did not oc- cur hidden. Among how much they are restricted to the shallower water of the shore. This layer lays disconformally on the Oligocene. Outside of the thrusting shells and of the shores are dark fine to pulvisy muddy coarse sandstone replite with mica. Coal mineral layers are common. All in very shallow water de- position. Surface & hotel at 5 P.M.