Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 95
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Transcription
"The Ovidian is here. Hard clasts below with thin bands of conglomerate but through the top, the vein is nearly all a fine conglomerate, the pebbles are about 1/8 inch. At the very top, the pebbles swell up to 3/4 inch. There is an abundance of iron but not easily made out as nearly all appear in sections. However, there are many large beds, (on the south-east corner of Bridget Ridge) About 1/2 mile north of Delaware Water Gap and south of Experiment Mills (later new by) may be seen about 75 feet of a vertical quarry once in the Leper- ditia altai beds. It is a series of thin, reddish dark tone, hard clasts or rather dense limestones (weathering whitely white). In the quarry also lie great blocks of Ovidian that have come down from the hills above. As this bed is not more 230 feet high, this gives a rough approximation of the thickness of the whole section. As far as I can see the section is as follows: Onndaga limestone probably less than 20 feet. Eosopus shale probably about 100 feet. Ovidian not more 50 feet. Becraft maybe 50 feet once a less. New Scotland, I saw none.