Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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3088 Friday June 3-7910. Kezer-Pint. Left Cumberland at 7 A.M. fn Twenty-first Bridge, West Virginia Between the New Scotland shale and the Hackberry Lower Ordovay then in a reddist blenformed gne asblt 6 miles thick. Hardly known a residua earth. The 90 feet of Lower Ordovay might as once be con- tinued fn another 80 feet before the more sande Upper Ordovay appears. These lower 80 feet are fluised in color while the Upper Ordovay is decidedly one candy and yellowish in color. The next 16 feet have four prints above which the abundant upper Orilly [is maytids] print make their appearance. Then 12x feet to top of Ordovay. The beds became more sandy and finally conglomerate. 124 16 80 90 { 220' against my 25 8' of fourth studied section My former section sum 348 feet. 310 feet fn the entire Ordovay. Kezer Quarries, West Virginia. The contact between the Cofly [basal Marbles] beds and the even bedded (Tondelway) is now well exposed here. The contact is abrupt between the two series and the basal bed of the COFFLY is somewhat brecciated conglomerate. The parts are thin and flat and of the