Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 99
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just beyond This contact in x the station Lehigh Gap on N.J. Central. The Salina series is bearing bedded and without shale while the Medina is thinner bedded with silky sandy shales like those at Ottoville. The Salina base should lay at the bottom of the thickest sandstone here about 10 feet thick. Below this the thin bedded sandstone are cheek and the whole is a series of greenish fine and course bedded sandstone with many interbedded thin sand shales like those of Little Penn. During 1897 which shale goes with the silky luster. This is undoubtedly the Upper N.J. Central. Opposite the station the series is rather a shale series with the very thin beds of sandstone. A greenish shale. At the road corner there is bearing bedded sandstone and below red sandy shales like those at Ottoville. Going up higher on the N.W. side there is a new railway the Chestnut Ridge R.R. and here one sees almost the top from the north of the Medina series. Before one comes upon the sandstones, there is seen much red shales lying around or that the Salina is not far away. Then for the line I straddle takes me out to my near the Lehigh Station of the N.J. Central. The series here begins with light green shales (correlation to the Mediana silica galls) and red sandy shales interbedded with