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from Easterns Point, and a fifth of a mile southeast of the first exposures 

 east of Eastons Beach. Northwestward the coarse conglomerate continues, 

 with interbedded sandstone and a little carbonaceous shale. The dip 

 decreases from 45° W. to 15° W. Westward along the shore the very 

 coarse conglomerate with interbedded sandstone continues, the most 

 western exposures becoming nearly horizontal, dipping at a low angle east- 

 ward, from 5° to 10° perhaps. At the extreme western end of the exposures 

 the conglomerate shows an interbedded layer of dark carbonaceous sand- 

 stone, so disjointed by small faults along joints as to obscure at first sight 

 the evidences of its former continuity. This layer, when reconstructed, 

 indicates an eastward dip of 10° to 15°. 



Comparing the two sides of the anticlinal fold, the western side Ls seen 

 to have a lower dip. This feature is especially well shown near the extreme 

 ends of the shore exposures, the dip at the Purgatory rocks being at least 

 60° E., while on the west side the dips for a long distance along the shore 

 are low west, and then east, being in places practically horizontal. The 

 shales on the western side of the fold are perhaps a little more carbonaceous, 

 but in general the rocks show only a dark-gray color. In comparison with 

 this the shale and sandstone series at Taggarts Ferry are very much darker, 

 often black, and show a similar intercalation of medium-sized cono-lomer- 

 erates just below the coarse conglomerate series. Near Black Point the 

 series contains chiefly sandstone, which, although carbonaceous, is not so 

 dark as the Taggarts Ferry exposure. Moreover, the change from fine 

 conglomerate to very coarse conglomerate seems to be here more sudden. 



PARADISE COARSE CONGLOMERATES. 

 PARADISE ROCKS. 



The continuous exposures of the coarse conglomerates formino- the 

 eastern side of Eastons Point terminate northward at Sachuest Beach. 

 The same series farther northward forms the Paradise Rocks. The lower 

 beds of the conglomerate series are exposed a third of a mile north of the 

 beach, west of the road, near a stream. They are chiefly sandstone, with 

 a few conglomerate layers; strike N. 12° E., dip 70° E. Farther east 

 just west of the road, there are, almost in situ, very large conglomerate 

 bowlders, with large pebbles, forming the base of the coarse conglomerates. 



