Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 98
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Slatington on the Lehigh. Saturday Sep. 12-1914 See notes in this book under date April 11-1914. Left Delaware R.R. Gap at 6.44. in Phillips- bury (N. Eastm). Changed here to Lehigh; got there at 7.42 and left 9.44, Slatington at 10.58. Stopping again at Bittorus Hotel. The hematite red shales and fine grained sand- stones seen in Lehigh Gap to the north of the Medina series dams rose in the R.R. cut about 1/2 mile beyond Payson Bridge. The Gap: About 150 feet of it stands upright and the flatters on each side so that no greater thickness can be indicated. In the regular semi sandy Dalina, bear a few ripples but no sun crackin'. Also saw a little caliche. Saw no bones of any kind. The Penn. Survey gives the thickness as?1275' Bony south toward the Gap, one probably sees about 500 feet of Dalina. Along the Payson road the base of the Dalina here is as it is at Delaware Gap a sandstone series. Penn. Survey give it as 85 feet. and of about the same thickness, probably 75 feet. It rests without apparent break (therefore discordantly) on the Hudson Plain One. Medina series. The contact is as conformable as they