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April 10. Friday Allentown - Slatington
Set off at 5.30. Started in to see the Ordovician
section higher than that seen yesterday.
In the abrand and quarry of the old iron furnaces
are seen li, some about 43 foot high with at
[but about 18]
least 10 prominent zones of Cryptogon. They are
always here a white [magnesian] in fites
limestone, in laminated layers
and conglomerated. The lateral extent is very wide
across the quarry face. Between these are
many which are dolitic.
darker and usually thicker magnesian layers,
There is a great Cement Industry near the
top of the Mohawkian beneath the Martins-
nery between Asplay and Cementon. Now
the Mohawkian is in a low rounded fold anticlinal
which a horzontal schistosity has been developed
almost to the extent of slate cleavage. This they
material that they use for cement. I saw no
fossils.
The Martinsburg shale here a slate lies
in a distinctly higher county than the lome-
stone belt. It is 2 miles to the Blue Out, the