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Ind., Va.
Potomac - Point of Lectum.
In the hills Creek Cement this same crookling occurs
the middle
once or less throughout 350 foot of beds. Then there
are occasional gaps throughout the rest of the hills Creek but
the tendency in these thin beds is to be more and more than horizontal.
The Tondroy - Keuper contact is as sharp as can
be. On one side are the overlying laminated beds almost
without joints, and on the other thinly bedded slate with
joints. This difference however need not be explained
as due to a new sea invasion over the Tondroy
land but maybe due to a deeping of the sea 25 to
originally about 100 feet deeper in Keuper time. Hardly seems probable that the
All of the higher Keuper and the rest of the lower
Devonian is cut out by a steep contorted fold.
Tondroy | hills Creek.
Keuper
Clinton Bedding
Left Potomac for Cumberland at 6:20 P.M.
Looking at the Allegheny Front from Potomac one sees
the three marked
Folley's river levels, or terraces.
Top of Allegheny Plaiton
Potomac river level