Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
Page 55
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Sunday June 5-1910 Everett, Pa. Left Cumberland Md at 7.20 on the Broad Top and Huntington railway for Everett, Pa. In a lime quarry on the outskirts of the village and near the bridge crossing the south branch of the Juniata one sees a long section of cobby li, forming one arm of an anticline with the beds dipping from about 53° at the top to about 20-0 below. In a rough way I calculate the thickness to be about 200 ft seen. At the top there is foot of cobby li that have in the lower York Chonetes gen- seensis, Spirina reticulata, S. modestus? Atrypa reticularis, Phoriastella sp. small ? inch long, Rhiz- odendrella emarginata, Lemicocinulina several species. In the soil supposed to be 20 ft higher are Prismatophyllum (Cenolaria), Stictospora ?/4 ind. in diameter. Stromatopora large Platyceras (like a new Diaphorostoma rathieri), Forams praececors. About half way down in the section a single Stromatopora was found. The lower 100 feet are more cobby than the upper limestone which are very dense and concri-