Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 52
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I gathered limestone to me face I shield some attached fossils like those of the Osceola conglomerate layer. What in it is a Spirifer mud like S. [cyclotera] and valves of [Merrittella] or Renssi- [lauria] filling the former. Can this have been carried on the Beer's limestone down from wherein in Bath Mountain? Later - this certainly was a piece of Secrest li. indicating that there was eroded off out hole. The fossils attached to it show like those at Cherry Run. Setting over Massanutten Mt. and going down Upper tr Overall is less than 30 feet beneath the [Massanette] sandstone we found a taut of Calymene, Athys tes- [tudinaria] Byssocrinus micoleta, Rafinesquina alter- [mata], Tentaculites (about 3/4 in lay straight), This sandy shale zone must be at least 30 feet thick when one sandstone of considerable thickness affords (Faulted down upon Massanette sandstone) a character like the true Massanutten. A more shale of the same sandy character and Clathus testudinarius and Rafinesquina alternata. This is the Upper Massanutten faulted down. The sandy shales beneath must be his Lower Massanutten, the fossils of which indicate it to be Lorraine. Later in going back up the mountain collected again in the soft yellowish sandy shales underneath the [Lower] Faulted upon Lower Massanutten sandstone are found S. Athys [annulata] dorsal valve, several Rhynchonella