Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 97
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Lower section at Leizer, Va. (doc.93) September 8-1908. Base. Thin lidded dark hue oratuline. Beds vary 2 inches thick other throughout. About 18' A similar zone with shale beds at top and bottom, but about 1' thick. Central dark hue li. in beds 2"-8" About 20' Dark hue oratuline in beds 6"-24" About 18' Shale zone " 4'-5' Dark hue oratuline in beds 2"-24" Becomes less pure below, passes almost into a magnesium shale. Horizon of Judge Albert R. Camellona across the hills. About 130'-135' End of Lower quarry. At the base of this quarry a small fauna reminding of the East Valley fauna. Phynchmella refleja type, R. Camellona, Bygga, Rhynchospira, Ostracoda. Starts this fauna from this quarry. It is about 100 feet to the base of the large quarry higher in section and of which a section has been published. Lee Hanging Rock section at Papacomo Va. at end of this book.