Field notes from Maine and New York, 1889
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Mr Louis Berier tells me that- at High Falls there is a section in which all the strata from the Medina Sandstone up to the light cement which is covered by the drift. They all lie con- formably upon eachother. 1055-7-1 is at the Southwest corner of the 5th Binnewater Lake and town of Rosendales Walter Co. M., It is on the slope of the hill on the west side of the Old Cranbury Dam. It is the continuation southerly of 1055-A-2 - Only the rock on the eastern side of the anticlinal axis is exposed. It is rich in trilobites. S- is the station where Mr L. Berier found one of the specimens of Homalonotus major which was described by R. P. Whitfield in the Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. for Another specimen of the same species was found the same day by Mr Berier at 1055-A-2. 1055-A-1 It is on the West Side of the anticlinal axis of Section 1055 A. It is on the West side of Lucas' turnpike, 1/2 mile N.W. of the 5th Binnewater Lake. Either Schoharie Grit or Canada Galti. Containing fossils, numerous joints at set Ls to planes of deposition.