Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 100
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only 3 thin sandstones (2'-j-7') in a thickness of 70 feet. Then follows blue grey shales (as before) with among them grains of greenish coarse sandstones, but no red shales, for about 150 feet. Another red shale gave 12 feet thick. Then bedded sandstone 8 feet, yellow shales (from inside) 20 feet. Then a curly slaty sandstone 10 feet. Then green sandstone, some yellow sl., and an occasional thin red shale 40 feet. Curved area. Then thin and thick bedded sandstones 25 feet. Curved area with shale foot 100 feet. The thin bedded as, mostly yellow (pure) with a few places and shales in 17 1/2 feet. 20-100 00 40 60 80 100 Then there is a curved area 310 yards across but in the lower branch end on opposite side, forming one mile this the shale measure of 15 feet... that is only here. This gives 910 feet; the Penn. Lime has 580 1/2 of it all along from. Then greenish-white coarse bedded conglomeratic sand- stones in beds from 4