Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 36
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Transcription
In general one gets the impression that the sea came in for a short time, deposited the white, orange, blue, angular andrite rounded pebbles with crystals, later followed by oceanic variegated clays [illegible] deposits by him. In some places the white sands of the Patux- at is full of rolled pebbles. These are when removed from their layers distinguishable from the Pleistocene pebbles in being almost white quartz while the latter are stained a yellow. At Charleston one took the orange sand to the H.R. and came on the B.C.R.R., a little east of Frys Hill station. Here of the west of the station one sees the variegated clays in one place deep red, maroon and rose but pastward the same clays are bleached to white or lead white color while several hundred feet still more westerly the dame red clay reappears. After going over the cut it is very apparent that the bed of the Patuxet are laid down very un- evenly and the nature of the deposits for are very unevenly. In one place in the same horizon there will be a sandy plastic clay which when rather dried the fusion shows much finer mica.