Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 61
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July 13-1907, Saturday. Brodstreet to Martinsburg, on the Southern R.R. Left Brodstreet at 8.16 A.M. and arrived at Martinsburg 11.15-- We go via Strasburg and change here to the Valley Branch of the B.&O. to J.T., Harper's Ferry, are then onk to Martinsburg. Martinsburg, In the afternoon followed east along B.&O.R.R. Not more than 4s miles from station came upon the contact between the Phocanclock- (?) and the Marti- s-bury. The limestone belws say 100ts 200 feet of live Leptolus, Orthas tricenaria and Strphomene crebescens. At the base of the Martinsburg immediate at contact collected Chimaerographa typicula, and thus or more additional species also Leptolus lepis, The beds dip 35-0 E. Have a photo of it with a crust on the face of the limestone. The limestone begin to introduce thin shale gives about 4 feet or thirty. There became more numerous and the all shale with considerable carbonate of lime in the shale. The transition is gradual, Twenty five feet above the contacts pressure has so jointed the shale that in forms can be seen. The limestone where the Martinsburg rests on it has