Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 104
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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. -6-