Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania 1901
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i common with a few valves of byssidula galentus small variety. These fossils and the physical con- ditions indicate the horizon to be the Merista zone of Cumberland. Did not determine if this is the last of the Leiviston limestone but if it is then this formation terminates with the Merista bed of the Cumberland section (See May 6-1901). A little higher on the road there is a little quarry for road metal, the rock seems to be a deep seated shale crust which creathing whitish. The only fossils seen were Leptopelia Stellula which leads one to think of it in the base of the Oriskany and the same as the Hoell crust which underlies the Qualthrop shale at the Devil's Post Pone at Cumberland. It is probably Aghburner Oriskany shale and my fossils are near the base of this for- ma-tion. Just what the Leviston shale is have not determined (See May 6-1901) Continuing of the road Hoell.