Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 110
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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.