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Vincentown July 3 - 1907
Packed material and shipped me small box
via express.
In reading Clark's notes on the New Jersey Cretaceous
one is impressed with the abundance of green sand or
fluenite. In fact all the formations may be said
to be in the main of this sand. As one goes south
the beds become more calcareous.
Barrell thinks the Cretaceous shore line may have
extended to the Blue Ridge in which case it must have
also existed in the Great Valley but not to the west of the
Alleghanies. In Connecticut it extended to Hartford.
The argument for this greater extension is due to the
way the Connecticut cuts across the Crystalline structure.
It could not have done this had then not be after
Cretaceous over, into which this river had cut its valley
and as these were stripped away it began to cut
through the ancient rocks below to keep its shortest
course to the sea.
Left Vincentown at 1.35 and Philadelphia
at 4.46 arriving at Pottsville at 6.15. After
seeing the hotel concluded to go over to Havre de Grace where we came at 7.30. A good country
hotel.