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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