Field notes from Maine and New York, 1889
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1061 A A' 130 ft East of A° to 18 ft in thickness - barren. bluish gray on new surface but weather to gray and flake off, A² 14 ft thick hard blue coke rock S.S. weathering to whitish dip 45 N 10 W barren A³ is 12 30 ft directly ESE of A² - thickness 60 ft it is more shaly than A² ⊥ 62° N 10 W. 28 ft from its lower surface fossils were found. A³ forms a cutting 140 ft long. A⁴ // 40 ft E of entrance end of A³ - about heavy bedded S.S. blue weathering to gray 6 ft thick A⁵ a bluish brown shaly sandstone containing fossils - 8 ft thick, 1061 A 59 A⁶ hard sandstone with round vertical borings - 8 ft thick A⁷ leaver bedded S.S. light blue gray - 13 ft thick barren - A⁸ 12 ft shaly dark surface laminated barren - A⁹ 12 ft blue gray S.S. like A⁷ the fossils. A¹⁰ 15-ft blue laminated thinly sandstone barren like 8 A¹¹ 50 ft hard bluish gray like 9 barren A¹² 10 ft laminated shaly S.S. with fossils. 30 ft drift. A¹³ 10 ft hard heavy bedded Sandstone. Barren. After finishing this section we started down the river for Rrassara Lake.