Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 16
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April 20-1916 The dark sand grains interbudded with the rmp, li all of different sizes and are considerably rounded though not completely so. In one place was a fine exhibition of intraformational conglomerates in the dark sand and in several of the grains were seen excelling, with throats filled with sand. Were also seen some which support the rain prints. I did not see them. Barrell holds these deposits are laid down in very shallow water, perhaps less than 50 feet and that they should not be classed as shore phenomena. The shore was not near. Between these deposits and the shore must have been deeper water depositing the equivalent sands. The line came to the main from the open ocean, Some layers are decigantically altered, others are orbicular, then are either li, some are riffled, intraformational conglomerates grains of sand, all point to shallow water, warm climate and currents from a shore that lay practically at sea level.