Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario 1913
Page 47
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bedded Medina sometimes for ten feet more. Clinton. The basal Clinton is again highly psittiform and the then beds have here a thicknes of 9 feet followed by the thick bed of 4 1/2 feet thick. P. Magnus occurs here again about 16 inches above the base. At the head of the gulch where the falls are one again see the Clinton and very psitt-sit. Here the basal layer is nothing psittiform with a little shale between it and the Medina beds also somewhat irregular but not much so. Medina. At the falls the Medina looks different from where we saw it further down the gulch justing 1/3 mile further east. At the top are gray sandstone and green shales for about 6 feet. Then a red sandy shale across for 2 or 3 feet thick, followed below by cross bedded mottled sandstones all of which are marked by the translation ripples [illegible]. Fueroide n Authophyerae are rare here. At the abandoned quarry on N side of gulch all is a very light greenish sandstone out