Field Notebook: USA 1958

Ross, June

1958

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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stratigraphy paleontology bryozoa Ordovician USA Tennessee

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Thurs. July 21, 1960. Dep. N.H. Fri. July 22 Crown P.T. State Park Reservation. Late in afternoon walked over Sections A-A, Raymond 1902. Bull. Amer. Paleont, v. 3 no. 14, p. 12. Colls. figd at Cornell Univ. Section A' Viewed only the upper part of the sequence above Raymond's covered interval gt 500 feet: Marlsrites in massive sandy beds. No good for collecting Section B-B', Raymond, Still very sandy in basal part No good for coll.

C S40-421 swell cliff e30 Ruth ated B17 English Fort 1790 Rolling away Ft. St. Frederick Terry Bridge Champlain Road N 580 ft.

B-3. + Holo Machaetes " + Stomatoporoids B-4 + Orthoceras B6. + Stomatoporoids B7. Stomatoporoids + brachs. B-17. Black River Fm. Black massive late having solitary corals, brachs, gastropods, a stetopoid (not collected), ?Piswella 15 ft above base of limestone large colonies of tabulate "Columnaria"

Section C-C. lower part not productive of fossils - very sandy. C-23. Same as black lake with large colonies of trepo. in P.M. which E. Cummings collected Thin lenses of calcarenite - sand foot in black lake which weathers white C-24 C-27. West of rubble docks Fenestralis, Columnaria Chromatoceriun Macrurites. No coll. made

C30 Base of the Trenton list remainder of calls from Sect, C when unpacking

7/24/60 Chazy Quarry Section Depth of quarry Dolomite? 1) Floor of quarry; Sandstone, many brachopods of Rostricellata type, other frags. _________________ 3"+ 2) Covered ________________________ 1' 3" Dolomite? 3) Ls., dark gray, fine grained sandys, alot of green-gray weathering sand blebs and bands, 4 to 6" beds more separated by 1/2" shaly partings, which have more porosity (small spring) _______________ 2 1/2' in Pamela order Pamela Startat unit 5. 4) Ls., dark gray, v.f. grained calcareous calculutiti, appreciable clay + silt - agricultural line bed ____________________ 8'

black, when fresh 7.) Ls., Light gray to med. gray, 6" to 8" beds, phytopsoc or tetradium beds, calcilutite with coarse calcarente bands which may contain "geartogs" sand and most of the fossils (brachyopods). 3'3" road main level of quarry. 8.) "Dove gray" Ls., calcilutite, massive 2 to 4 foot beds, scattered frags of fossil shells, cutubedded with massive v.f. calcarenite, having more common fossils, near top of unit

Calculutite and Calcareute lithologies are intermixed in irregular lenses. 14' 9.) Limestone, shale, wavy bedding, much mud in shaly partings, 2" to 4" lids. Quanyman's 26 inch shaly layer. Vie Chaumont. 2' 2" Trenton? 10.) Calcarenite; faced gray, f. to med sand calcin size grains, irregular bedding surface, poorly sorted fossil mash, tetracnals, algae or small Stromatoceri, brachiopods, gastropods, the most fossileferous of all of this sequence,

"beds 2 to 6 feet thick, separated by 1/2 inch shale partings. - 16 feet covered by glacial sands and conglomerates above 10 to 15 feet Ordovician rocks here dip about 5 or 6° to the NNW although there seems to be a shallow syncline North across the face of the Quarry so that the dip varies slightly. Gentle flexures in late.

7/24/60 Type Chazy Sec. Bore not typ. Sec W. A. Brainard T Coll. Chazy 1. Seely above Saccharoidal ls. interbedded w. coarse calcareite w. pebbles 93, 88. Coll. 2 - 6 feet up in fossil bed, "crinoidal columnal conglomerate" 3. 2 ft. Fine siltstone w. fine ribbed brachopods solites black. 4 pebbles. ht. grey weather 4' ht. grey calcareous brachs still fresh 180ft

Brammerd, Egner & S[illegible] H.M. Chasey Rocks! Vol. 2, 1888, no 5: p.323 - 330 D'Hydro + [illegible] Brooke B Jenny Upohell [illegible] Collier's Corner 3 acres >1/24/60/13 >1/24/60/12 The Original Magnum B.V.S.

7/24/60 5. Beach hash. Coarse calcareite Coll. 5. med grit. 6. Weathers rubbly silty to, beaches. New Bay. 4 ft. 7 Covered interval marsh at lake Valley 27 ft. 8. Base of small knoll - coarse calca. sand? beaches. 4 dry thirty heated units 15 ft. 9. Fine shell hash Coll. ht gry 4 ft. calcare.

7/24/60 10. Fine saccharoidal lo. Dense, & grey. No fossils / Massive beds? horn diplop. 10- 15 ft. β thin, 11. 2"ff calcarinite crudoids, triloites, few brachs, fine calcéxinite. Cold quarry Pk 348 N.Y Coll. 121. Near telephone pole. Swd of quarry. Coll. 13 15 yds north of telephone pole. Near N. end of quarry.

In the field we couldn't get Brainerd & Seeley's or Osley's sections to fit in w. field occurrence. Osley did not remeasure Brainerd & Seeley's sections B-B C-C. My section is pretty much across the line of sections taken by Osley but I doubt if I can match the section In 7/24/60/13 there is a tetronal. This late it would be in C-C. of B&S? — If H. Duncan is correct this late is at least middle howille

July 25. Night of July 24 spent on Saranac R. at Castville. Very nice spring at foot of hill. Morning July 25 Shipped 120 lbs rocks from Plattsburgh, Dep. for Watertown via U.S. 3. Again impressed by good Municipal facilities i.e. beach etc. at lake Saranac, lake Tupper. looked at exposures between Watertown & Roulman to Sandy Creek Municipal parks. Pine forest with excellent camping facilities. No collections

July 26, Tuesday, 7/26/60 East of Rodman. Gulf Stream. Exposures under bridge & up creeks above streams junction with Sandy Creeks. Upper Coburg, See Kay, 1933 Pm.T.Sei. V.26,p. Coll. 1. Dense med grey late (calcarenite) having mainly brachiopods. 4 ft. Coll. 2. Dense med-grey late (calcarenite) of shell hash, lenses of criinoid columnals & echinoids, abundant Brays not abund - only colonial coral, Coll. 3. Med. grey calcareous weathers rubbly having "Leptaena," Sowhella, Orthoceridols. 15 ft. Some

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Coll. 4. Calcite - calcarenite having "gastropod" v. abundant some brachs, Bzy. vist. absent

7/26/60. Quarry at Copenhagen Call 5.

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West of Pleasant Lake 7/26/60 Coll. 1 8ft from Base of sect. See loc map over page Coll. 6 Unit 3 Unit 1. Interbedded calcarenite & calclutite, & allstone shocks, prevl. in fossil hashes. Individual calcarenite beds 1"-2" thick, shale ½"-1" thick (lenticular). Shelly + lste surfaces rippled marked. Beds in lower part of section weather grey brown & light grey. Meet grey on fresh surface. Unit 1 is 16ft Coll. 7. 8ft from base thick Unit 2 - 5½ ft thick Thick calcarenite massive

"lodo" 8-12" thick + 7/26/60 interbedded sh.& limest. calcareites 1" - 3" thick These beds are v. carbonaceous. Unit 3. - 9 1/2 ft. Rapidly passing late t shale. Mainly late, beds 2"-3". Top of unit marked by a re-entrant of weathered sh. & some late + 18 ins zone Coll. 6 at level of re-entrant. cryptolithus constellaria. Unit 4. - 10 ft thick Same as unit below again marked by shale re-entrant bt at top.

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Unit 5. - 8 ft. 7/26/60 hole see below in unit 3, narrow remnants 3" thick (shale) at 8ft level. at 3ft., 2ft+3ft from base of unit.

7/26/60 Canal at town of Black River. Wove grey ls. w Phylloceras, & "Columnaria" il. chert nodules. Coll. 8 - Columnaria Approaching Calcium from town of Black River. 1/4 ml. W. N.Y.26 from Black Hill Unit 1. 4 ft thick. Coll 9. Wove grey to small. w. wavy bedding - beach shells, Tetradylum, Columnaria horn snails near top, Unit 2. 2ft thick Same as below but large Coll. black chert nodules from Quarries. Coll. 10 Unit 3. 6ms thick Wove grey ls. w. alum. Tetradylum.

1/26/60 Cut 200yd 50y Calcium top birdseye ls. 3' silt ls, 1" beds between 1/4" shaly beds 4' dovegray 6" to 3' foot beds 2 1/2' slabby siltstone +lba calcarinite 4' dovegray, calcareite, 4" to 2' beds bryozoan ledge RR.bed. 3' Calcaremite, mud gy weathering, 6 to 10" beds,

Intra dam. songl. 7/26/60 near base of chest - large round blebs in fine calcareous matrix. ↑N. Sagford Corners. Hill - Coll. 7/26/60 {Coll.9 9,14 10} Calcium US.II Railroad cut (See Cushing's measurement of section. Coll. made by (RBN. remembered) 7/26/60/II.

7/27/60 King's Falls, Deer River. ledge at base of abutment 3 ft above water level. Prasopora, dalmanellids, large isotelids abundant, Also smaller Bay, large Hebertella? Section at least 40 ft above river level. V. Similar to that near Pleasant lake 7/26/60 Coll. 1. mainly Prasopora See loc. map over page

River King's Falls Call 7/27/69/ Denmal Carthage Quadrangle 15 min 1 mile Scale

For location see map on page 7/27/60 1 ml. S. of Rte 3 at Big Bend hedge forms at + surface for several miles. 8 ft exposed in road cut rubbly layer w a hop gastropod calcarenite 6" oval 8" 2 Tetradium - phytoparas bird's eye No. coll 1/2 ml. further S. 4ft outcrop on east side of road low set of ledges. black toke--rubbly coll. 2x chest birds-eye. Southernmost exposure shows faulting of late.

Near Champion Huddle 7/27/60 Coll. 3. Nautiloid, Bryz, corals. Coll. 3 A. Float with Dictyoptids. Exposure on W. side of road & ft. silty calcaremite + calcilutite (htgpy) Rockland Tmo N Black River Great Bend 7/27/60/ No coll. 7/27/60/2. 44° 75 45' Antwerp 15 min. quadrangle Scale 1 mile Taken from Bull 296, N.Y. St. Mus. 1934. Budaington & Ruelstrom

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7/27/60. Coll. 4. Coll. 5 Col. 6, Coll. 7 Abandoned quarry near Champion, N.Y. N 7/27/60/3+3A. 7/27/60/4-7 Champion Huddole Champion N.Y. St. Mus. Bull. 296, 1934. Carthage. 15 mins. quadrangle N.Y. State Scale. 1 mile

"2 cont., 2 silty-shale breaks, this forms a prominent west zone in the quarry wall. — 2½' 3. Birdseye & dove gray calcutite massive bed — 2½' 4. Calcute & Calcareous interbedded entertongued, irregular bedding surfaces, weathers to 2 12" layers -2' coll.5 5. Calcute, red-gray, ½" to 2" beds, schalyed & silty interbeds less than ⅛" thick, bedding surfaces irregular, contorted coll.6 perhaps by load slumping — 4'

med. gray 6) Calcarenite having calcilutite matrix, 3 to 4" beds, wavy bedding - 3' 7) Dove gray limestone, calcilute, 6" to 1 foot beds, even bedding surfaces compare to those below & alove - Coll. 1 ———— 2 1/2 8) like unit @ ————— 7'

7/28/60. NY331 Road from Turin to Lyons Falls, Abandoned quarry Coll.1 [Horizon appears to be same as Coll.4 lithology] 7/27/60] Black River - Howville Higher on hill bridge late bl chest nodules exposed at creek crossing (higher in section) near Turin Brenton is exposed. 20 20 10 10 ---> bl. chest 10 *---20'---Coll.1 20'

7/28/60. Sugar River Coll. 2. 2ft. below falls. Coll 3. 6 ft below Coll. 2 Coll. 4 ... 4 ft below Coll. 3. Pipple marked long erinoid skns oriented W.E. Coll. 5 3ft above Rockland Im + 4ft below Coll. 4 Horn corals, cypos, + small paterns of treps. V. Shaly; brachs. v. abundant Bry. not abundant. Corals. Abundant at Coll. 4. int

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Prospect 7/28/60. 1st of section unit 1. two crinoidal calcareite Barrick, sw bay, 4 ft. V. fine crinoid columns. Coll. 6. unit 2. late in quarry face 6 ft. unit 3. Coll. 7. 3ft Black, fine calcareite in beds 1 ins to 6ins thick & bl. Sh. "-2" interbeds. By, abundant sticks, buttons Unit 4. Same as unit 3 but beds more massive 6"-8" each. Shale 1" beds. 5 ft Coll. 8.

(Unit 5.) Townships of Prospect. River on east side of town Northside g Road just northy bridge E w. (1) (4) (3) (9) (2) (11) (10) water v. Silty, (1) Limestone, brown gray irregular bedding 2 to 4" thick, dark silty lenses which look like poorly bonded chert zones, upper 2' feet each three bands - 8' effused (2) ls, calcilutite and a few calcaroute lenses, slaly partings have [illegible] and other grinds, 4-6" beds Coll. 9 7'

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3 Calcareous, v. shaly, irregular beds, 2 to 4" thick, - 2' Coll. 10 4. Calcareous, shaly and some calciferous - v. dark gray, some beds weather light brown, 3" beds, 1/2" shale interbeds, bedding is nearly planar here, Coll. 11, dip 12 to 15 deg S.E., - 25' Across the river the beds are flexed in a S.W. trending monocline and we suggest a fault in the control on the bend in the river here.

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Trenton River 2/7-28-60. Outcrop in Trenton River at bridge at Trenton Falls broushy Bed's outcrop N. aide of bridge below dam (spillway) Coll. 12. 4 ft. 3ft above spillway calcilitite. Coll. 13. 3 ft. large Isotelus gigas Coll. 14. Exposure in road cut at entrance to Mohawk Niagara Power Corp. of 15 ft lower Trenton (Poland member) Thin bedded. Contains Prasopora

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Niagara Mohawk 7/29/60. Power Corp., W. Canada Ch Trenton Falls Area 4 ft above Coll. 12, 7/28/60 Black's calcarinite - fine ovoid columnals + orthocerids abundant. Some Bay. Coll. 1. Coll 2i. 5-ft. 15ft Above top of lower power plant. Button Rafinesquid Coll 3, in unit 12ft. calcarinite (3'-6" beds) + shale 3'-4' beds. w. calcarenite on top

7/29/60. Coll. 4 7/30/60. Patent Hollow. No coll. Middleville. Coll. made due east of village about 1 mile on road to Fairfield Acc. to Cushing, N.Y.SM.Bull. 77. both B.R. (5-12 ft) to Kenton. Middleville. <--Coll. S.E.T.>

Cushing's quadrangle could be used for topographic map. for localities around Middleville.

7/31/60 Ingham Mills Never found outside Dolgeville

8/160 Middleville - New Haven.

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Hypothesis No.1. Note Oxley's type Chazy section does not commence at the base of Brainerd & Seely's section. It appears that Coll. 7/24/60/13 (with rugose coral) is on the line of strike of 8/19/59/T (with rugose corals + Columnaria) Now if these outcrops lie at the same level as 7/24/60/10 in Chazy quarry

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& are th 8/19/59/The landing thus visc as dippin in variou due to g (clip is a with se difficult clip. In Chazy Quarry tetracosal bed is 34 feet above Rosicellula

C-14 C-13 C-12 Chazy Fm. C-11 covered 25 ft. C-10 C-9 C-8 C-7 C-6 C-5 C-4 C-3 C-2 covered 82 ft. C-1 Formation Chazy

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and are the same as the etc. 8/19/59/Trenton - Chazy landing we would thus visualize the beds as dipping shallowly in various directions due to gentle flexures (dip is about 5-60 + with reefs etc. it is difficult to offer correct dip. In Chazy Quarry tetracoral bed is 34 feet above Rosicellula

If project Rostricellula bed up dip to Sheldon have the relation would be fine. The oc. of Rostricellula at 8/19/59/H would not be anomalous. Prasopora occurs in unit 10 34 feet above Rostricellula bed. - ie. in upper part of Chazy = lower part of Black River

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