Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania 1901
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Lewistown May 5 - 1901 Sunday. Spent the morning along the first three miles of the railroad towards Cumberland. The road follows pretty nearly on the strike of the lewisstone limestone. In the lower portion of this thin, laminated Magnesian limestone the only fossils noticed are Ostracods apparently the same zone as in Mullens quarry at Cumberland, Md. Towards the top of the ridge and apparently near the top of the Lewistown limestonethe rocks is more crystalline and has much crinoidal material Favosites and A. reticularis. I dont think this is very high up in the Lower Pennamurus zone. There may be from 20 to 40 feet over of Lewistown. In the afternoon crawled up to the top of the ridge to "Prospect rock." In a little quarry near the base of the ridge and east of the houses of the village A. reticularis