Field Notebook: Maryland, Washington, DC 1921
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shale. These beds measure 52 feet formed by a six foot zone of Hacklied them and irregular reddish flint limestone. Here I found Lep. Flotellus and in none of the collections have I seen the Leptellus on the large Pissolania which leads one to believe that are of the Kingston where about at the Oriskany (the Hacklied and are above I now refer as Oriskany) appears directly on the Delthys shale. I believe the P.P. watch beds all seem to be one continuous series. The highest beds remind much of New York in the typical Pissolania, Farro's helen hyus and abundance of Stromatopora. The entire series is unbroken and 161"5" from the top is a thick zone made up for a few inches of small shells like Pentamerus galeatus. Just above these