Field Notebook: Maryland, Washington, DC, West Virginia. 1908, 1913
Page 45
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May 1 - 1913 Thursday, Hancock. Started out to walk from Hancock to Tonoloway along the Western Maryland R.R. Checked my baggage to Cumberland. In the first cut east of Round Top, we see an arch in the red lalins. The sandy dark red beds are full of long concre- tions and those are arranged vertically. They are still places of definition but concretions of lime gathered by a rising and sinking water with the dryness and petrety of the zone, tells that they are opposed to the weathering, percolating water flows along these vertical grooves and changes the ferric iron to the green ferrous form. About 50 feet we exposed in the center of the arch one which are about 70 feet of this kind with similar modular groups. held red rocks. The grey beds here are all seen cracked and splitting the dramatic character can be seen sag through a bed just thick, The sun cracked zone is any-thin at least 50 feet. Leperditia are common here in the sun cracked beds. The cement has followed over above the base of the red beds. Opposite Lee Johns Run or at level 103 there is fine exposure of Clinton shales with the regulation fossils. Here are my large Beysichia, have taken a piece of the Pennsylvanian limestone.