Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 87
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Billy Mt Hanmon Cumberland Sep 6 - 1908 The red Medina sandstone shows much cross bedding but in our sections. Cuts show one foot deep. Sand equal in grains then shales. In some layers irregular sided vertical holes that have more mud than sandstone, these are of organic origin but what do they represent. TJ F McNeut. White Medina Red Medina Bells Creek The Red Medina is a series of alternating sandstones and red clay shales. Red Medina without much rock into White Medina. The latter same into Clifta The White Medina is first a heavy bedded also fine grained quartzite with some cross bedding. It becomes thinner bedded with large beds and the mud shale are fine into the Clifta shales. Red Shales 6" sandstone depth colour 14" Red shales 4"