Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 47
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After the rain in the afternoon walked south of Lanes. We saw but little limestone of the Keenandock, the lown hills with bands of that weathering into a deep red clay. At about 1 1/2 miles south or came into calcauries sandstones also with that bands evidently the Artictam sand- stone, Here then the transition seems to be com- bated from the Centietam to the Keenandock. I saw not a trace of a fossil. July 10 Wednesday. Fort Cross Roads. Eastern Brook Left Lanes at 7.30 and went east down over the Keenandock. The surface with many small hills, A little further down the slope to the river encoun- tered an extensive shale zone in the Keenandock. Arriving at the river it is plain that the stream has cut down its entrenched valley very recently for after rising towards Massanutton and looking well one sees that the topography on both sides of the stream is young. Soon are encounter the Chantinsby shale with the entire surface covered with rounded boulders of a quartzite = Massanutton. There were also