Field Notebook: Maryland, New York 1899, 1900, 1901, 1904
Page 61
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Transcription
Jerusalem Slite. Then a sharp rise to expresses of heavy bedded limestone about 50 feet above the road. These heavy beds can be seen in segments of a large Crinoid, and great quantities of the stems of Lepida- docrinus, also Farrella seem here (have me) and nearly Glymeria. Above the last level there is another steep rise to the quarry level from which many years ago were taken the Homocina rock for stone walls. The Quarry design is the slite, or side of Jerusalem Slite. The face of the quarry is about 25 feet and the Homocina layers are about 5 feet above the lowest part of the quarry. About six inches above the bottom crinn plate in the one with Mariacrines. Above the latter about four feet is a hard crystalline layer with small black specks. ditto. In another quarry once back on the same line higher beds are shown and at