Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 54
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Copy from old note book At High Falls (May 1-1910. Elevan miles southwest of Kingston. Here the Rondout river falls on basal Gt- Hestile. Then the Rondale cement so far thick Wilton 18 inches from lay my head here Bimneratu sandstone 15 feet (55 ft 60) High Falls shales, 67-90 feet. First yellow shales and then red sandy shales and sandstone. One zone like oratuline but somewhat. Then zone (These may not pyrite zones for as no doubt so.) of um pyrite are common. The oratuline like one is 10 foot thick and seems so far beneath Top. Below are the Saline like red shales. Shawangunk is 284 feet thick but we sees only the upper part 35 feet. Five miles north of High Falls it has thinned to 10 feet. The pass been is a heavy bedded quartzite-conglomerate. The pellets are layers at the top up to 1 inch of rein quartz. The interbedded sands are cross bedded. A distinct head here (Brown). Hudson River shales.