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8. Stormville sandstone. The top of the Coeymans is not
exposed in this section. Five miles southwest a
thin, sandy layer was noted at this horizon. This
expands southwest and becomes the Stormville sand-
stone of White's Pennsylvania section.
9. New Scotland beds - Not exposed in bluff, but in fields
back of bluff and northeast, and immediately above
the northern quarry, are
9a. A hard cherty, very fossiliferous limestone 20 ft.
9b. Soft, limy shales, forming a shallow depression west
of bluff section. Estimated thickness 140 ft.
10. Becraft limestone. Forms a low ridge and more or less
continuous outcrop along crest of hill back of quarry
bluff.
Hard, dark or grey cherty limestone, many fossils 20 ft.
11. Port Ewen beds. Not exposed but underlie a marked
depression west of the Becraft ridge, beyond which
is a wooded ridge- Estimated thickness 60 ft.
12. Oriskany formation. Along crest of wooded ridge.
12a. Hard, more or less siliceous black or gray lime-
stone, fossiliferous,- many trilobites. The Dalmanites
dentatus limestone [illegible] 30 ft.
12b. Dark siliceous limestones- Nowhere exposed in
continuous section- characterized by Orbiculoidea
jervensis. Estimated at 20 ft.
12c. Earthy or siliceous limestones, usually not exposed-
Upper part becoming sandstone further southwest.
Spirifer murchisoni, characteristic. 120 ft.
13. Escopus grit Exposed along west slope of ridge formed by
12a. Estimated thickness 400 ft.
14. Onondaga limestone - Exposed as low knolls rising above
the glacial terraces along the Delaware River, and
along road near Dingman's Ferry
Leave Nearpass 11:15 A. M.- Return to Tristates, thence down
Delaware River road to Brick House.- Note bare ledge of Escopus grit
on left, 1 mile southwest of New York State line.
Ledges of Onondaga limestone 3-4 miles s. w. of State line.
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