Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 37
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"got in from the once spedy marine creatures but did not succeed in getting a foothold. Outside of a population marine fauna through a long thinness is at hand, though the fossils are never common. Just before the Catskills condition is permanent, yet hand we got specific oreocratalis and smalle hippy-ellermani- a brannysia. This design seems to be about. The fossils always drift out in approaching the red beds. In the red beds one always sees sun-croeting, rain imprints, rill markings and in one place we saw fossil foot prints. Also foot markings are common in the red muds and even in the red muddy sandstones. We then go through several thousand feet of greenish sandstones with zones of red shales are of different Dermin age. Throughout lower gets the Archaeopterus flora. Our marine fossils are to be seen. The sandstones often have imprints of stems of coral of 1 to 2 inches in diameter. Sometimes they are conglomerates of green shales, bottles, river action tearing up the muds