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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