Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario 1913
Page 61
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Lockport. Friday Aug 22 - 1913 Rained all morning. In the afternoon it cleared some but we started out for the quarries about one- mile north of Lockport. After crawling around all afternoon we finally made out the following section pretty well. The lower part of the section can only be seen back of the United Indurated Pipe Co. Here at the level of the water in the canal to the turbine one sees about 44 feet of Queenston. Over the latter lies the white Whirlpool sandstone here also filling in the same cracks of the Queenston. It's over nine or 6 feet filled and by then reddish sandstones for 11 feet more. Williams got down over the cliff hill side and made out these thicknesses. The next higher beds could not be well made out but as I saw them from the other side of the gulch they looked to me like an alternating series of thin green if