Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 128
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In anthogany, a layer one, a few hundred feet to the south one can see the following: At the top the reddish-cherty dolomite used for road metal (has the sponge fauna). About 8 feet thick. This passes gradually into other dolomite in which the flint nodules are [illegible] and broken. Then, as usual, the dolomite highly crystalline, a bluish white, about 8 feet thick. The fossils are those mentioned for the quarry. Below a series of blue shales with bands of dolomite (about 2/3 shale) about 10 feet thick. This is only one of these shales in the thin shale partings in the next series that has furnished all the reptiles discovered by Merian at Keely. [illegible] on many canities filled with calcite crystals Then - one bed of dolomite about 4 1/2 feet thick. Then 3 bits of dolomite 1-4" x 1-6" x 1-8" and slight slabs dolomite gastropods. Then 2 layers each 18" thick. Then one 10 inch layer another 8 inch layer, then about 18 inches of the reddish dolomite, one of which dolomites have some shale between. Then a little shale and then sand to base of quarry. This indicate that the fauna collected by Frank at now - in the N.W.M., is from these lower dolomites. The fossils are one little bivalve with thin pyrite or an oxidized just a rusty yellow. This makes base of quarry. Along the term pit line one sees that a series of green shale with many bands of the bits of [illegible]