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Near Perth Amboy, the Woodbridge brick and stoneware clay is
lleg.
Near South Amboy, the best clay is the South Amboy fire
clay.
11 A. M. Arrive New Brunswick. Visit State School of Ceramics
and view Trias reptile foot print in museum of Rutgers
college. Lunch at New Brunswick.
1:00 P. M. Leave New Brunswick via Lincoln Highway for Princeton
and Trenton. Route crosses beveled Trias shale; 1 mile
after railroad crossing (3 miles from New Brunswick)
patches of Pensauken gravel on the shale;- similar
grevel caps all hills above 120 feet elevation over a
wide area northward. The general absence of this gravel
below 120 feet indicates (a) development of a wide plain
on shale in pre-Pensauken time, (b) period of fluvialite
aggradation; (c) removal of gravel and development of
broad flats and gentle slopes just under 120 feet with
narrow [illegible] along main streams,- since middle
Pleistocene.
30 miles from New Brunswick cross intrusive mass of
diabase, southwestern extension of Palisade diabase of
Hudson.
1:35 P. M. Kingston- Deposit of much disintegrated Pensauken
gravel on beveled Trias shale.
2.00 P. M. Rocky Hill-Metamorphism of Trias shale adjacent to
the diabase.
2:30 P. M. Arrive Princeton.- Drive around University grounds-
Visit Guyot Hall.
3:30 P. M. Leave Princeton for Trenton via Pein's Neck. Good
exposures of Stockton sandstone (Lowest member of Trias)
near Carnegie Lake,
4.15 P. M. Lenox Pottery show rooms, Trenton, N. J.
Hotel Stacy Trent.