Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
Page 20
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on the road to Port Jervis Fort t three miles south of Secund are seen the red rocks of the Shipl Falls Slate. A mile further the old quarry party. Shawangunk in full face at Havan- fried. May 3-1910 Left Port Jervis at 7 A.M. for the Bear's no quarries. Took the road on the western side of Halfmoon ridge and then climbed over to the quarries on the eastern side of the ridge. On going over the ridge are climbed up over a steep slope of white quartzite that are taken from Shawangunk. Then are got to the top are some came upon Esopus, and then the Lower Oriskany Rensselaer aquicagidicta beds. That this quartzite is over the Esopus does not know. It should known go into the Oriskany as over it comes the Onondaga. Its thickness so far as we could see was not one 20 t, 25 feet thick, if or thier. The Heldeteryian is not were exposed here. The New Holland is shale here and all others a limestone. The Colymans is