Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 110
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Oredina-Clinton. Following gradually upon the Oreada in the Oreada series of thin bedded sandstone which is very yellowish and then interstratified shale, About 30 feet in the sea with loose debris. and then the white shale is broken down and eroded. The Penn. Quarry gives 300 to 400 foot. It's the regular Oredina-Clinton formation material of sea at this horizon throughout the hills. Fishing Creek valley. Higher up saw red shale, loose, so that the dolina is probably close in here. If there is gold it is in. From the Morgue it does not seem possible that beneath the Oreada there can be a foot Jurassic series where this ore is not here. This is a significant fact for at 42 miles across the strike to the west in the greater thickens. This is near Lewis- Ton. Left Harrisburg at 3.45 and got to Lewiston at