Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 29
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time have considerable Haell shat that also is picking for the Cambrian. All of those pebble, (in rare cases up to 6".) up to 2 mols across are well rounded and show considerable transportation. The sand- stone is coarse clean sand in a greenish base. Though it occur the grains of conglomerate for a far miles thick, they up to be many for thick. The conglomerats are restricted to the lower 186 foot. Then come heavy redded clean quartz sand with jasper thin veins, 1 greenish material surprizing that one is to 3/8 x 1" long. with occasional pebble of serpentine. The later sandstone have a slight serpentine color. These strata are followed by thinner bedded white sand- cemented with some and once of shale sometimes becoming a greenish sandy then red clay orell. the upper bedding area is Gradually the section goes over into smooth shales of a silty luster, that look much like some Clinton shales. Originally the color is greenish with these are interbedded sandstone and the at the top appears another quartz grits all in