Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
Page 79
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breathing hardy shale Henry bedded dark grey limestone, and locally deeply worn and other chalks. crinoidal and cup ends, Thickness 174 feet. Argillaceous shale li to shale. About 4 feet thick. Has many Bryozoan and Petalostropha and Loricifera reticula [illegible] Costatus. There are of the Bryozoan beds at Cork Valley. marginal (part) Argillaceous slightly dark grey limestone weathering partly shaly, has cup ends, commonly A. reticularis Thickness 15 feet, has a granular appearance due to comminution Of maybe that this is the 'Bastard Limestone' and forlorn of fossils and small shells. Here the break between the Marliens and the Tolmarinos. Then bedded undulating almost Hackle li., weathering dense flake, hard and brittle. Thickness 11 feet 6 inches, irregular joints 1 to 5 inches. Has Loricifera Lepeditia in lower part. Three layers of subplanular li., 2 feet thick. Maybe the top of 'Bastard limestone' same li., as just above the 3 beds. Thickness 9 feet. Dense fine grained flake limestone that will weather into a then slightly irregular bedded li. Saw no fossils. About 5 feet. [At first we thought the break here but there is more] Thin bedded, platy or sheet, Hackle limestone abounding in Lepeditia alta and very few Bryozoan. The top of the Bossardville = Tonraway. Hack my silicene calcareous From the Hornsville shale at the end of the farm