Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 80
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Mid Cag O Kittatinny Valley - Green Pond Mt. Lower Cambrian Hardyston quartzite = Chiques of Penn. Up to 200'. Commm Olenellus thompsoni in fine paired recty lages (weathered). Also in Green Pond Mt. Gracett grt Olenellus. Middle Cambrian absent. Site contact, Billin describes it as transitional Upper Cambrian - Ordovician - Lower Ordovician. Kittatinny magnesian Si or dolomite, 270' to 300' = Shenandoah, etc. At Dewart in O'Donnel and MacManamonau's quarry Lingulella streara, Ortho. nantmorris; Ptychoparia nantmorris, Jaulkia nantmorensis (comm), etc Half mile north of Blairstown (landed quarry) Agauls saratogensis, Ptychoparia Both in upper part of Kittatinny At Columbia (Delaware handy of R.J. Duquesneanna - Dewart RR.) has a Ordovician fauna rather than Beekmantown. Also in Green Pond Mt area. Middle Ordovician = Mohawkian Si, 130' to 150' fat. Mt in Green Pond Mt. 300' on Delaware. May be absent, with the Hudson River slate resting on the Kittatinny. All Lower Mohawkian - Louisville - Black River - Lower Taunton. Richly fossiliferous. Best place in family E.J. HmPz, tacky out at Jaclonting, near Blairstown. Fossil listed by Fed m Jones 18-36. Has 64 species.