Field Notebook: Maryland, Washington, DC, West Virginia. 1908, 1913
Page 44
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Transcription
Farther over these red beds have cortical fillings instead of calcareous concretions. The cortical cemented beds are of ferric material and look more like cements than the limy concretions of New York, in the proximity of anticlinal and synclinal arches these beds are exceedingly crushed. Some of the harder long beds are curiously contorted way. Take a picture of one of these contorted beds. The upper harder hardened layer is folded while the softer beds below has been thrown into the hollows for the contractions. As a rule the lower soft bed flows into the cavity but in some cases are heaved. When the picture was taken the beds were much crushed.