Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania 1901
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Transcription
If Crystallany sandstone are seen and at the top of the ridge it pops out in large masses. It is a white sandrock slightly prinstain'd and grounds with Spirifera argenrous. Other fossils seen are Spirifra annetus, Russelagra ovides, Megalantus oralis, Hippar- ionyx profiones, Eatonia peculiae; and a large Tentaculite. All of these fossils are the characteristic Upper Crystallany species. Ashburner gives it as 110 feet thick and the Crystallany shale as 205 feet. Together 315 feet or about the same thickness as at Cumberland. Lewigton May 6th 1904 Took the 7.33 train for the Lumbury road to One Clure's which is 17 miles NE of Lewington. Just North of the ridge is a series of quarries which the farmers use to smelt lime for their fields. A face about 100 feet high in shurn here. The lowest layers