Field notes, undated (7)
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54/1 Conglomerate, whitish, down to the creek, names no exposure, no melaphyr, jettles found, per- haps this is only a metamorphosed form of the common conglomerate of this region but it dif- fers at least in not being a large jettled form. R 59 Amygdaloid, a good-sized exposure. R 510 Granite, plenty. R 53 275 steps east of the Squirrel Hill road junction is the purplish slate outcrop with fine laminations similar to the Malaprop arch. Strikes of slates E4N, dip about vertical. Conglomerate towards the South coming in on an E+W line by a fault? Contact is fused. Cryl, whitish matters of broken reddish tonalophy. R 55 195 steps west is more of the creek clearance, jett makes strike near N75 E. dip vertical, hidden WSEfrom Y 55 75 steps east, plenty of amygdaloid, Y 56 75 steps east, plenty of conglomerate, whitish. Weathered surfaces at least will expose. No amygdaloids recognized at least. R 57 Conglomerate, same as at Wallastin RR station, very reddish broken jettles, dark brown red. Plenty is felsic. R 58 Plenty of amygdaloid. Some conglomerate towards the South east, also some included laminated "red slate?" in the amygdaloid. R49 Red conglomerate of Donner Landing type. R410 Amygdaloid. R411 Slate, dark hack with sandy courses, strike about E+W, dip 10 Swith. Which indicate rather westerly L51 Granite L52 Very coarse granite R412 Amygdaloid. A fine grained amygdolite in con siderable abundance, with interlaced thin sheets of red Cambrian slate or moderate quartzite, E+W, dip 25 South