Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario 1913
Page 117
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processing of plants from the Grand Chenille and these are land plants. There are no adaptations like. There is no calcareous matter connected with these plants and for that matter there is no calcareous matter in fossil shells connected with the entire Chenille here. The Grand Chenille here has not a trace of marine animals. Nor are there any in the Pennsylvanian of this area except a few are known in the Anthracite again. The Pocono is cut as sharply se- parated from the Grand Chenille as I thought it would be. The transition zone between is dark--justly and very well--and then all is red shales. The Pocono howe- ever is usually are a coarse silvery mi- caceous sandstone with rarely a shale lens. These shale lenses 6 to 10 inches