Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 100
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Brick House to Hainesville. 3 1/2 miles. Cross the strata obliquely downward from Onondaga to Porino Island shale, but only occasional exposures along road. Hainesville to Leyton- 3 miles-- Along Little Flat Brook-poor exposures. Layton to Dingman's Ferry and back to Layton- 2 1/2 miles, Cross section in ascending order to good exposures of Onondaga near Dingman's. Layton thro Culver's Gap to Branchville.- 7 1/2 miles- Cross Kittatinny Mountain through an abandoned river gap (piracy) 917 ft. elevation, crest of ridge 1500 feet. High Falls shale, and sandstone and Shawangunk grit. East of gap, across closely folded Martinsburg (Hudson River) shale and slate to Branchville. Dinner at Branchville. 12:45 - 2 P. M. 2 P. M. Return to Culvers Gap. Turn right in gap around Culver's Lake. From road north side of the lake note views of the Schooley Mountain peneplain (gneiss rock) across the Kittatinny Valley (Martinsburg shale and sandstone and Kittatinny limestone). Follow road at base of Kittatinny Mountain to ledges of Nephelite-Syenite (Elaeolite-Syenite) north of Beemerville. Occurs as a sill 2 1/2 miles long, 1/4 mile wide between Martinsburg shale and Shawangunk sandstone. 3:45 P. M. Leave Syenite dike- Continue N. E. on same road,- 1 3/4 miles to volcanic plug in slate. -Igneous rock contain-ing angular fragments of slate, limestone, and granite gneiss- the "roof" through which it broke, 4:30 Start for Newton (20 miles) via Plumbsock, Woodbourne and the Papakating Valley, rocks Martinsburg shale. Hotel-Cochran House. Supper, lodging, breakfast - $3.00. TUESDAY 8 A. M. Leave Newton for Franklin Furnace via Mulford Station, Houses', Monroe, North Church, Hamburg, Hardystonville. First mile across an anticline of Kittatinny limestone. Miles 1 - 2 1/2 syncline of Martinsburg slate. Miles 2 1/2 - 4, across westward dipping Kittatinny limestone and gravel plain with small lakes, marking site of buried ice-blocks, 4 1/2 miles- Lime Products Corporation- Quarry and mill in Franklin lime-stone (pre-Cambrian)- Inspect quarry and mill. 9:30 A. M. Leave quarry- North of second railroad crossing, note wide gravel plain, with kettle holes and moraine. At Monroe turn left, cross railroad to first road fork. -4-