Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
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Thursday April 9 - 1914. Left at 5:30 and took the Penn. R. R. train at 6:50 for Holland M. J. atmt 12 miles down the Delaware from Easton. Then walked along the railway tunnel to Briefd when we got the train back again to Easton, at 10:37 A. M. We came south east to see the Triassic. At Holland we are in the quartzite conglomerates. In the upper beds more than 9/16 of the material is a white coarse grained quartzite the fossils of which may be of the Tuscarora formation. Then there are some reddish coarse grained quartzite that may be of the higher red Medina. My rayd in these a limestone piece. The boulders are subangular to once rounded with many flat-nes. The flat nes show clear stream action with many of them dipping to the south which means dipping up stream with their origin to the north or N. East. Some of the boulders