Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 12
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These conglomerates have been in- terpreted as due to glacial action, but there is no evidence here of tillites. The material is clearly of torrential stream action, streams that came down from that distance from the Appalachians into the creek. In places the boulders are crushed into one another or that some of the fault structure maybe due to shearing- siding during consolidation but more prob- ably at the time of the Paleozoic defor- mation. The limestone boulders are a magnesia limestone. Some have fossils in section but could make out none. I am probability are of Early Ord