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Five to six miles- Pass abandoned iron mines-caved ground.
4:30 P. M. Mount Hope Mines- Inspect Model of ore-bodies.
5 P. M. Leave Mount Hope for Dover via Rockaway- crossing Wisconsin
Terminal moraine.
Dover- Mansion House.
Wednesday.
8 A. M. Leave Dover for Replogle Mine, Wharton.- Inspect separa-
tion plant.
9:30 A. M. Leave mine- Pass Dover, Rockaway, Porsippany, Jersey City
Reservoir, Boonton, Montville- 14 miles.
10:15 - 10:45 A. M. Inspect planes of Morris Canal-Boonton. Note
glacial delta- east of Montville, elevation 400',.- marking
shore line of glacial Lake Passaic. Trias conglomerate near
railroad.
Montville to Mountain View, 5 1/2 miles- Across bed of
north arm of Lake Passaic. On right a curved ridge of extrusive
basalt. of Trias age,- the latest of several flows. At Mountain
View deep gravel filled gap in the basalt ridge.
Turn right to Singac- 2 1/4 miles.
Turn right at Singac, keep left at second fork, up steep
hill,- 1 1/2 miles to road cut, showing beds of Trias shale
between flows of basalt. Note conformable contacts, absence
of metamorphism of shale, vesicular character of upper surface
of basalt.- Exposure on back slope of sec2nd of the great basalt
sheets.
Return to Singac to Little Falls. Inspect East Jersey
Company's Filtration plant- Lunch at Little Falls.
1:30 P. M. Leave Little Falls- via Great Notch- to Montclair Heights-
offset of Trap ridge by faulting. To old quarry at Upper
Montclair- Basal contact of first basalt flow on shale; pillow
lava, absence of metamorphism, conformity of contact;
To Montclair and Verona- cross ridge to valley on Trias
shale and sandstone between first and second basalt sheets.
Eagle Rock Manufacturing Company- flowing wells in vesicular
trap. 12 inch core thro first basalt sheet.
Pleasantdale.- Brownstone quarries in sandstone between
basalt sheets. South to Mount Pleasant Avenue and east to old
quarry showing columnar trap columns,- described by Iddings.
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