Field notes from Maine and New York, 1889
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(Locke level) Upon this lie some 320 ft 4Cm harder more sandy shale still fissile but breaking up into larger fragments than 4B 4C contains pyrite nodules Found fossils on the north bank about 500 yards below the West Shore R.R. bridge. 4d is a hard sandstone, ligher in color than (c), and more compact. The lower portion (about 25 ft-) is broken up by joints at right to the plane of depos- ition while the upper portion 35+ft is quite free from them. It is also well exposed along the East side of the R.R. track. Here most of the fossils were collected. 2/05 3 A 5 About 1000 ft North of the R.R. bridge is an exposure of a light-grey limestone, very hard, Contains many fossils, while 4d dips about 20 deg NW 5 is almost vertical & strikes NE. Numerous fine bands of transverse section of 5 Sandstone runs through it horizontally (parallel with plane of deposition). It contains many fossils Crinoid stems corals higher up It also contains many flint <-