Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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The Binnewater is a greyish thin-bedded sandstone. The High Falls passes, turns into yellow and then reddish sandy slates are sandstone thin-bedded. This gneissy rim-sprits are common. Some gray of material like material is encountered. The High Falls falls downward and become more and more red shaded with the true Galacia. Considerable thin-bedded stratum, some 20 ft thick to about 10 ft thick, and then the red Galacia slides. The Chavan quartz at the top is a heavy reddish conglomeratic-quartzite. It in crosses at the top are lens of conglomerate traverses the latter (Buxley), thin a white conglomeratic quartz pebbles, some of them 1 to 2 inch diameter. There are irregular layers of conglomerate with orange-red sand. The latter are apt to be cross-bedded. Considerable uneven action of a irregular anastomizing action. The Chavan quartz here has a thickness of 200 feet, save the upper 25 foot or so and are all conglomeratic. The material is dense, a true quartz grit with green pebbles. Much of the