Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania 1901
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Saturday June 1-1901 Harristown, Pa. Roped out here to see the limestones along the Susquehanna from Bridgport south. Just a little beyond the Bridge- port bridge is a thick series of dark much crumpled shales. Looked for fossils but saw none. A little farther in the new road cut and then along the railroad to Daltonpore is a series of heavy bedded limestones dipping from 30 to 35 degrees south. These limestones weathered are from buff to white but in fresh outcrop are dark blue to black. In the rail road cut saw most evidences of fossils but could make out nothing of them. I then hunted along the main line south for 1/4 mile when I had the first clear fossils and there are not determinable. They are sections of large scotyfordos. Have one specimen and if but others sketches. Both