Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
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October 5-1923. Friday. Cool and clear morning. Bears off to see the Cretaceous on our way to Atlantic City. Practically saw all of the various formations, but the impression left is a series of glauconite marls interbedded with sandstones. Also saw the Vin centown lime - sand but here the joints are not at once as abundant as at Vincentown itself, which is only four miles away. For fossils the Cret. is uninteresting. All of the high land is covered with the Pleistocene yellow gravel - I believe the Princeton parks. Be then drove into Atlantic City where we stopped at the Haddon Hall. October 6-1923 Saturday. Left Atlantic City at 8.30 and drove most near the Atlantic Coast and the way to Asbury Park. Much of the land is barren and but little inhabited due to the loose sandy soil. Here and there a Town, maybe fishing villages. All lie but little above sea level until we gets near Point Pleasant when the land becomes a rolling country. Set for Asbury Park at 12.30 and left