Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 66
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"September 15-1908 Bird and Darin have this examined going down the other demand road valley. St. by the Lowville. Above eliza Spit (1924 fine in other run also - Chazy) In another place the ripples are very distinct about 1 1/2 inches apart from crest to crest and about 3/1 inch deep. These are the ripples of very shallow water. A few inches above this surface are unmistakable evidence of sun cracking, i.e., the coarse dirty plots are cracks from 1/8 to 3/4 inch wide. Most of them about 1/4 inch. This is a fine case I just shallows of marine origin, if a long mud! The calcareous mudds are one pure limestone (all this layers) are irregular in deposition but sparse far more regular than in continental deposits. These deposits showing all these evidence can at least 100 feet thick. The place is the first overhead major bridge and I Martinghway or 200 yards east of Taffs station on B.C.R.R. I again make those deposits east of Taffs and once more 1 mile west of the quick flush eight times. In all these places ripples marks and sun cracking is conspicuous. In places then is much disturbance and one faulting but the three or are seem to be my cliff. In nearly all the cuts through the limestone from five miles east of Scott Mountain and the strata are more or less vertical and those or seen all appear to be of these shallow water