Field Notebook: Maryland, New York 1899, 1900, 1901, 1904
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Sep. - 27 - 1900 Drills back home. Patch box R.R. For galvanized drip legs? [illegible] bluey gray li. men less heavy breeder on going of thin silky li. Tarpunk of ornet sich eroding. L. alta guin 15' from top. 48' Ostracoterm m a one foot thick 8 feet from top. P. calcutta large calcified. our process [illegible] our eroding face and ripple channel, 2' 4,9 10 32.6 31.8 7.7 65.6 70.6 305.0 Lepaditra alta fine grained Ostracoterm. Have come. First /Strangotoma out 30" first from top of formation Dense heavy bedded bluey li. 4' 10" Principle beds are rather slate- shale type. Then heavy 17 feet of dense Ostracoterm reef, light blue limestone when of our host Lepaditra alta Dense Strangotoma reef with massive oolit., Cladocora sp. and T. leddinghausi. preceded. Thin bedded irregular limestone also has strong oolite in places or sparingly. Heavy bedded dense blue, MH li. Oolitic less, slight throughout. Oolites of beds are more a few crinoidal. Base of this is rather variable. our m. Ostracoterm.