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Tuesday April 14-1914.
Ottisville, New York.
Left Scranton at 7 A.M., and got to Ottisville
at 11 A.M.
The contact between the Hudson River and
the Shawangunk is an unmistakable uncomform-
able one. The photos show the degree of the uncon-
formity.
The Shawangunk begins with a coarse conglomer-
earate with pebbles up to inch across, all of quartz.
This goes on for 6 to 8 feet and then the pebbles
become smaller but some large pebbles of the kind
that appear here and there of Hudson shale pebbles of that size
recur throughout the Shawangunk. The sand
is coarse turning the bottom but higher up it
in places very fine. The bedding is very regular
though there in some cross bedding throughout.
Also nearly a little of channeling. Towards
the middle part of the beds are separated by thin
lenses of black shale. There is also scattered
throughout small nodules of iron carbonate that
weather into iron rust spots.