Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario 1913
Page 69
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Medina, August 23-1913. Saturday. Left Lockport by Trolley at 8.45 and got to Medina at 9.30. In the vicinity of Medina Falls of Crab Arch and immediately opposite north west part of the Falls, Gravel meets a gravel series of the Medina. To the left Above the canal level we sees about 6 feet of thin bedded red sandy shale and sandstone, mostly the latter. About 2 feet below the top occurs the A. archimedes layer (Coprolites) in three beds, together though 18 to 24 inches. Earlier in the morning I had seen the same layer above the Falls and here they more are lamellar through a zone 3 inches thick. A. haemani also occurs in these beds, also above and below them. The lower part of the The same beds are seen again at the tops of the quarry on the N. W. side of Medina at the Falls, between twelve and his (illegible) to be 20 feet thick. Very little of them in Belms are cross bedded sandstone either white, or mottled or even red. This same quarry zone is seen again in small quarry beds at the mouth of these red shale and red sandstone not far.