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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