Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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Monday June 6 -1910 Altoona Got up as usual at 6 A.M. and after breakfast to see the interesting sections about Hollidaysburg. At the LaLemont electric railway cut about 2 1/2 about the lower 73 ft miles south of Altoona station may be seen the LaLemont (Salinian) series abounding in Ostracoda, small Meristella, an occasional Favrites, very rare Rhynchotrema, and many small gastropods as Pelecy pods. The base of the Lalém cut here is an intra formation conglomerate (edge-wise peices, chucked up sea bottoms) with crabs (Favrites), Sperifera sp. (which has them) and Ostracoda, thickness 3'4". Which is "huldy bee". About 6 feet higher another intra formation conglomerate. Above the huldy bee for about 20 feet there are many zones of cratulinic like linden [illegible] beds between thin zones of shale. Then gradually into more shale beds with the shale almost a Hassel laminated shale in which which get Raphomilleria. Here I picked up a few small slabs with Ostracoda. Most of my fossils come from the upper beds of the Lalémvale justally appear to 50 feet of this section. Total thickness here 112 feet thick The Rochester beds below, the LaLemont at first sight are soft unlike the latter but the harder beds are now a blue limestone instead of a cratulinic like one and all the