Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 84
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Transcription
In a railway cut near Furnace there is a fine exposure of the Kittatiny [illegible] down into the Hardsetm. The lower portion is a series of interbedded quartzites with dolomites and some black shales. It is clearly a transition series so that some of the Kittating must be Lower Cambrian. How much is unknown. Visited Lime Products Corporation where the white Precambrian limestone (= Franklin) is ground up for farm fertilizer. The lining made short things by permatite. See the samples. Then to Franklin Furnace where we first went through the mills and strolled a number of mineral samples. Then to the open cuts to see the ore bodies about 17 feet across. Then looked at the Mount Hope iron mine (magnetite) in Precambrian. This is about 5 miles from Norrie where are stuffed our night, at the Manoir Hotel.