Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 61
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Binnearatu sandstone comes in sharp, a coarse gru quartzite, clean crushed even bedded sands. Over it lies the Cattlekill grit the sandy transition zone described, but the one is lying the other a clean quartz- ites. These beds are much rippled (crests from 1 1/2 to inches across). Bedded sandstone with grain to almost black footings (1/4 to 3 or 4 inches), the sands in beds from 6 inches to 5 feet more bed at the top. Grime con bedding and concretions sand at the top. The whole has a thickness of about 32 to 35 feet. They end abruptly without transition again the over lown zone. High Falls shales. On top a series of greenish shales, one grade of limy shales 3 feet thick, then more foot of limy shales with 2 grain shale footings, then greenish sandy shales 5 feet or so, Then black shales of about 3 feet. Together about 12 feet. Then red sandy shales that are more or less cum-cracked. Saw no quartzite down on any