Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 72
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Transcription
"The North Mountain cut ends in the concretional layers of the Hamilton. This zone has considerable thick- ness and is seen in several cuts up to Howell Run. It is in this zone that the two limits of the syncline re-appear red out, Below it in the cut comes the then first markedly concretional seen in the cut beyond North Cut, an estimated at 35 feet thickener. Then the once coleorous highly fossil- grows layers having a measured thickness here of 94' Then the Marcellus shale having a measured thickness of. 158 feet (Undates thick concretional Marcellus) The outturns and clear syncline has its center in the concretional layers of the Hamilton. There is therefor no joinship or chemistry in this region. All the way from the Matt Mountain cut at its western end to Cherry Run a distance by road of 4 1/2 miles one sees nothing but the Marcellus - Hamilton in a series of low folds almost horizontal. As one approaches North Cut from the west these folds become once prominent until a quarter mile of the cut when they try to fold at high angles. In the fields above the Cherry & North Mt cut one sees their lies over the ground giving evidence of the presence of the Bereaht. The Bereah't and Chippewa here as at Cherry Run is separated by a conglomerate bearing stratum