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  SEW 
  Y.»i; 
  i, 
  i; 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  torted 
  Wack, 
  partlj 
  glazed, 
  argillaceous 
  shale, 
  which 
  ptwed 
  to 
  be 
  

   1 
  '" 
  specimens 
  of 
  C 
  I 
  i 
  m 
  b 
  ., 
  pins 
  pa 
  r 
  v 
  u 
  9 
  . 
  but 
  

  

  mushed 
  : 
  

   Diplograptus 
  foliaceus, 
  M 
  urchiaon 
  sp. 
  

   1>. 
  angustifolius. 
  Hall 
  

   Climacograptna 
  bicornis, 
  Hall 
  

  

  Biograpttu 
  mucronatus, 
  Hull 
  sp. 
  

   Corynoides 
  calicularis, 
  Nicholson 
  

  

  The 
  presence 
  of 
  Climaeograptua 
  parvus, 
  Diplo- 
  

  

  ' 
  pi 
  ue 
  a 
  1. 
  -us! 
  ifolius 
  and 
  Lasi 
  og 
  re 
  p 
  I 
  ., 
  > 
  m 
  a 
  - 
  

  

  c 
  r 
  D 
  at 
  us 
  places 
  this 
  fauna 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  Dicellograptus 
  zone. 
  

  

  'NGLOMERATE 
  BED 
  OF 
  LOWER 
  TRENTON 
  ASPECT 
  IN 
  

  

  SHALE 
  

   About 
  150 
  yards 
  farther 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  nucleus 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  anticline 
  

   onglomerate 
  bed 
  with 
  black 
  shales 
  above 
  and 
  below 
  is 
  ex- 
  

   posed. 
  The 
  exact 
  thickness 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  could 
  not, 
  on 
  account 
  

   of 
  the 
  intricate 
  contortions 
  and 
  the 
  resulting 
  swelling 
  up 
  and 
  

   thinning 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  bed 
  within 
  a 
  short 
  space, 
  be 
  made 
  out 
  in 
  this 
  

   Place, 
  but 
  the 
  same 
  conglomerate 
  bed, 
  or 
  a 
  very 
  similar 
  one, 
  

   farther 
  up 
  the 
  creek 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  about 
  13 
  feet 
  thick 
  and 
  was 
  

   • 
  inclosed 
  on 
  both 
  sides 
  by 
  black 
  shales. 
  The 
  matrix 
  con- 
  

   a 
  dark 
  arenaceous 
  limestone 
  which 
  weathers 
  into 
  a 
  drab 
  

   Bandstone, 
  while 
  the 
  bouldere, 
  which 
  are 
  all 
  well 
  worn, 
  consist 
  

   »mall 
  pebbles 
  of 
  reddish 
  or 
  yellowish 
  sandstone, 
  probably 
  of 
  

   sdnm 
  and 
  Beekmantown 
  (Calciferous) 
  age, 
  of 
  large 
  boulders 
  

   (up 
  10 
  1 
  foot 
  in 
  diameter) 
  of 
  light 
  blue, 
  hard 
  Lowville 
  (Birdseye) 
  

   limestone 
  with 
  birdseyes 
  and 
  Tetradium 
  cello 
  losum, 
  

   ,f 
  ' 
  in 
  B 
  P« 
  ,a 
  Epical 
  Lowville 
  limestone 
  fossil,, 
  and 
  of 
  still 
  larger 
  

   boulders 
  (one 
  -\ 
  feel 
  in 
  diameter) 
  of 
  dark 
  gray 
  Trenton 
  lime- 
  

   ■ 
  ■ 
  Tin* 
  latter 
  contained: 
  

   Streptelasma 
  corniculum, 
  Hall 
  

   illopora 
  of. 
  ampla, 
  Ulrich. 
  c 
  

   Plectambonil 
  ricea, 
  Bwoerby 
  sp. 
  var. 
  aspera, 
  James, 
  cc 
  

  

  opnomena 
  incurrata, 
  8hepard*p. 
  \ 
  Str. 
  fllitexta, 
  Hall) 
  c 
  

   Khynchotrema 
  increbescens, 
  II 
  nil. 
  p 
  

  

  