Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 49
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At 2 P.M. started out on an exploration trip, on the Leroy Fourtains road. Soon saw some Hamilton fossils but did not collect these for the present. At Leroy Fountains saw excellent exposures on two hillsides of the Lewistown limestone. This is the locality described by Spencer. The soil over these impure limestones is red as is usual for limestones in this county. In the soil cover are horizons of more fine limestone are seen siliceous fossils—about 3 species of brachiopods, 1 a Stromatypa and 2 sp. of cephalas. In other horizons lower down may be seen other fossils among them stromatoporae. Spencer gives the thickness for these limestones as 93 feet and all belong in the Oranlias — the same Marlies seen at Carl Valley are else- where about Cambaund. One horizon had consid- erable evidence of cytiden in columns and estalby plats. Above these limestones are soft shales that weather out some check. In the shales I saw Candelia and ostracoda. This may be Lower Oristang. Saw no evidence of the stelden hujon nor the true Oristang. (See later notes) (This one is the Onneldgs shale of Kindle).