Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
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Sunday April 12 - 1914. Pottsville, Pa. Started out at 9:30 to see the Devonian. Began at Connors, 3 to 4 miles out from the city towards Johnsville station. At Connors we began in the Ithaca but at what level could not be made out because the Hamilton ores not to be seen here. At Barrell's locality described in A. C. J. we got the first fruits in his group A. These fruits are unmarked. About 100 feet higher we got the small lot marked Middle Ithaca. Shortly another 200 feet higher we came in the first red shale group. The fruits drop out in approaching the red shale and in this group there are none at all. It has the characters of a continental deposit. At me are more marine deposits and at about 5 feet above the red shale we saw tiny Oculina and Tentaculites. The latter are floaters while the Oculina spork shows that the sea was not yet normal, only that the spot