Field Notebook: Maryland, Washington, DC, West Virginia. 1908, 1913
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April 30-1913, Wednesday, North Mountain. Left Martinsburg on the 6:30 A.M. train for North Mountain. Then walked a mile south west to Hedges- ville. Passing over across the strike of the rocks are came upon what one supposed was Upper Martinsburg. This arm should trace Hamilton with fossils almost into the village. Here there is a short road up the hill to cross on the east side, with church and creek bed This road crosses Ordian conglomerate (white sand rock rounded pebbles of to 3/8 inch across). On this rested small white cheek with Beacroff fossils. The section is as found: In the Ordian conglomerate saw no fossils. Seen 8 feet. In the Beacroff Pholidomella assimilis, Spirifera concinna, Leptocelina flabellita (some), Orithostoma, Schuobrotella morlanthanum. The thickness maybe between 30 to 46 feet. The Tuscarora sandstone is a heavy bedded white gravelly quartzite and has some rounded quartz pebbles. It can be separated from the Ordian by its harder charac- ter and then for the Ordian weathers down into a pebble mass. The thickness is not less than 50 feet. A small high church and cemetery is on the road side just where the Tuscarora sandstone crosses the road.