Field notes from Maine and New York, 1889
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may-7-89 A1054 C On land of Andrew Widdagh about 2 1/2 miles N.W. of Marbletown. They are exposed along the N. bank of the Eoopus C. and form a Bluff 100ft (eye estine) high. 1- The rock is a fossiliferous coarse armaceous sandstone and contains many rounded con- cretionary masses which are much harder than the rock itself, dip = 3° W 30° N. 100 ft further dip = 6° W 35° N. The lower 28ft are barren 37 3 20 ft- 2 3 ft - 1 28 ft 1 and 2 are barren 3 contains fossils The creek bed turns a point 1/2 mile above here to Blue City is worn into the Hamilton? Paringstone grit. This extends on westwardly to Phinicia ? and Roxbury. 2- is 3 ft of alternating hard sandstone which subsist - the weathering and bands of sandstones like No 3. No 3 - 17 1/2 ft of dark grey sand- stone breaking first into blocks and then into thin layers. It is full of fossils. Brachiopod chiefly a Rhynchonella and Lamelli- and Orthocerata.