Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Archeeton, Monday August 25-1913.
Returned to the Large Falls of the Sorece
To make out if possible the contact between the
Medina and the Queenston.
It is now clear to one that the large
redded, much cross-redde maroon sandstone
make the base of the Medina. This sandstone
is of very coarse material, much coarser
than any sandstone beneath it above it. It
also slightly rippled and in time places downs
in the under side fills up into some cracks
of the Queenston.
The Queenston starts in under this sand-
stone as a maroon shale, sandy and mica-
cious. Within three feet of the top there may be
a gray sandstone 4 inches thick and another
may come in a foot farther down. In any
event none of these sandstones persist but
change within one hundred feet into the
regulation shales. In general one can say
that here at Archeeton the Queenston