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Triassic limestone conglomerates.
On Sunday after seeing the Cambrian lime-
stones I am now certain that the Triassic conglomerates
are derived from those limestones that once extended
across the Blue Ridge and Catoctin Mountains. The
milky white and banded limestones are still present in
great abundance west of Hagerstown. The fact that the
Triassic conglomerates contain no chalk is due to the
different climate that prevailed in Triassic time when
compared with the humid one of today. The former was
drier and produced no residual clays. As there
are no Cambrian quartzites in the Triassic conglomerates
we must then assume that those did not extend
across the Blue Ridge or at least not across Catoctin
Mts.
Fix of my paleogeographic maps accordingly,
also those of Triassic time for the wider area of
continental deposition.