Field Notebook: Maryland, Washington, DC, West Virginia. 1908, 1913
Page 78
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"On large fresh outcrops one sometimes in (2) creatures places one sees distinct bedding. The dip is about 30 to the south. This attaint emphases greatly. In certain of the beds the pieces are small in other large, others the pieces are flat, and finally some become much more red cementing material. The latter gel layers bring out clearly the distinct bedding with the dip to the west. On the fresher outcrops the red kindly cements is the first type or that the exposures are very rough. The limestone pieces then outcrop only all fracturing goes making the surface still more rough. The dip is changing to about 20 degrees These conglomerate beds continue for about one course the brigade to the east probably by Belfour's mile east of Washington Junction using a Holladay family and one comes at once upon a coarse quartzitic reconstrued sandstone with pebbles of quartz up to one inch and limestone boulder up to 3-4 inches. These slightly red dirt sandstones are interbedded with light red sandy shales. The dip of these sandstones is about 20 degrees. There are occasional brick sized shale gems and small and more rounded pebbles (=? centimeter) up, small and more rounded pebbles there being up to 1/2 inch in diameter. This layer has the appearance of circular sliding a heavy sand with pebbles.