Field Notebook: Maryland, New York 1899, 1900, 1901, 1904
Page 60
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Sep. 14 Saturday. Collected all day along the stone walls and looked over the section. The latter is as follows: The rise of the land is steep from the waterline at the base of which issue springs. Short and deep gullies are in the waterline and usually stop where the [illegible] begins. This near the top of the waterline that the Eurypterus are found. Above the water line is a steep slope covering the Pentacinite. Above the formation about Coffret is a bend of shaly bedded limestone of the lowest Cegmans, where lower beds may be called the Illinoia beds. The thickness of this lowest Cegmans is about 35 to 45 feet and in layers around in Illinoi- onic. Other fossils are [illegible] on Corals Chonetes greysenia, a small Platycerimus? Dalmanites tail ? or more species of Rhynchonella, and 1 Rhynchospira. Then follows a gentle slope rising for about 30 feet to the road at the base of