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daily fracturing.
This Everett section apparently has far more deposits beneath the Cigecegenesi beds than any other section seen on this trip. On all of the sections seen last week more had more than so feet beneath this one (Carl Valley) and the Tomloney had not more than 15 feet.
As we go north and east in the Appalachian basin the marble section becomes thicker. Accordingly the sea appeared in the north first and overlapped southward. How could this sea have come in from the Atlantic unless by way of New Jersey.
At the west end of Everett one saw a thick sandstone that one took to be the Clislang, how we found not the thickness but there is at least 50 feet visible.
In the Everett lime quarry the only limestone is seen to rest on the Tomloney, here again a thin bedded lime limestone.
The Clinton is seen just east of Mt. Dallas and has thick beds of sandstone not unlike the Tus-carora. Mount Dale with some acid groves. Thickness 4-10 feet or thereabouts of cement stone. And at Mt. Dallas station the Juniata does not show but to the west along the turnpike maybe seen the Seneca sandstone very much like the Tuscarora. It may be about 200 ft thick.