Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 73
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Kingston - Rondont Sep 8 1914 Walked about the abandoned quarries on Wrightby Hill to lay out a route for a possible return here with students. Was interested in the quarries on the corner of Delaware Ave. To see the contact between the Marlious and Creymans. The Marlious is the rugulation Niim limestone, dark inside but weathering to a milky-white outside. It is weathered on the top in a jagged way (see Van Dyke and Clark m p. 1186), solution surfaces and along joint surfaces. Creymans Marlious The Creymans quarrying is a nice a low, finely crystalline limestone made up of frost granular and dark blue merlon. The fauna in a large one and quite un like that of the Marlious below. All