Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 29
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2932 Vincentown July 1 - 1907 In the upper shale above south of Vincent- town the following section may be seen: ' Soil about 12" thick 3' Lying different imbedded bone. About 3 ft. irregular surface. Pleistocene Marine turns fossils. 3' Darker cylindrite, iron bedded. Petites scattered. Large pieces at bottom. One about 1/2 inch 1/4 wide and in length. Lignite. Hard piece. 4" - 6" Cretaceous Manasquan. Green sand with small Eoogyra, found seen, Shells teeth. Blancanite due for fertilizers. "Green shale of Upper Mail Red." or the same shale of the Manas- quan. Then walked along stream to beyond the Mill to diggings in the lower shale of the Vincentown or the upper member of the Ramerosses. These lime beds are just below the yellow sand and the basal horizon of the Manasquan. The Vincentown lime beds are not less than 15 feet thick, replete with Eocharia. Other fossils are rather rare are particularly the echinids, be picked up several and of the ones seen seemed at least two good ones John B. Brick