Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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May 17 910 Spent the morning in the Kimpton cement quarries and saw the crathrusting and faulted sections. There is a fold on the sharp lastly dip to vertical and across the top a thrust plane repeating the beds apparently four times. The most important feature observed this morning was the Cornish conglomerate at the base of the Old Red, that is the Gleneric, or at the top of the Port Ewen. This conglomerate in place is said to be 20 feet thick and what it consists of quartz pebbles distinctly rounded from 1/8 inch to 3/8 inch with occasional pebbles of a dextral hermitic multi-well-pronounced. This conglomerate zone is a very important one as it must indicate a new invasion and maybe have its connection with the upper Ordovician of Albany Group. Furthermore are beneath this conglomerate zone should go into the Silurian begin. This needs to be looked into. Lee Chadwick's paper is divine.