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EDWARD M. KINDLE 



Very gentle dips ranging from -| to 5°, but rising in a few instances 

 to 10° or more, characterize these folds. Although very low, they 

 belong to anticlinal folds, which are very persistent. Some of them 

 have been traced entirely across the quadrangle. Five of these folds, 

 separated by a corresponding number of synclines, have been rec- 

 ognized. Beginning at the north, the folds will be designated by the 



5KETCH MAP 



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V^ATKINS GLEN QUAJIL4NGLE 



Lnd ad/acenf porhons of Fbnns/lvania showing 

 loca+ionof anficlinal and 5/nclinal axes 

 byf.M.Kind/e 



*5 ca/e . 10 miles 



following names : the Fir Tree Point antichne, the Watkins anticline, 

 the Alpine anticline, the Van Etten anticline, and the Elmira anti- 

 cline. The position of these minor folds with reference to the near- 

 est Allegheny folds is shown by the accompanying sketch map.' 



Fir Tree Point anticline. — This fold has a width along Lake 

 Seneca of five and one-half miles. The axis crosses the lake at 

 Fir Tree Point, two and a half miles south of the northern edge of 

 the quadrangle, bearing a little north of east. Nearly continuous 



I The location of the Pennsylvania folds shown by the map is based upon maps 

 published in the Pennsylvania State Geological Reports and in Folio No. gj, U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



