﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist. 
  535 
  

  

  the 
  high 
  ridge 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  Bixmewater. 
  It 
  is 
  closely 
  similar 
  

   to 
  the 
  upper 
  Shaly 
  limestone 
  but 
  is 
  not 
  over 
  sixty 
  feet 
  in 
  thick- 
  

   ness. 
  The 
  Pen 
  tarn 
  erus 
  limestone 
  occupies 
  an 
  area 
  of 
  consid- 
  

   erable 
  extent 
  west 
  of 
  Whiteport, 
  where 
  it 
  outcrops 
  in 
  low 
  

   cliffs. 
  It 
  rises 
  high 
  in 
  the 
  ridge 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  Binne- 
  

   water 
  and 
  presents 
  an 
  escarpment 
  to 
  the 
  eastward, 
  as 
  shown 
  in 
  

   the 
  lower 
  section 
  in 
  figure 
  9. 
  In 
  the 
  valley 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  this 
  

   escarpment 
  the 
  Tentaculite 
  beds 
  are 
  brought 
  up 
  by 
  an 
  anticlinal 
  

   over 
  a 
  small 
  inclosed 
  area 
  and 
  some 
  pits 
  have 
  been 
  sunk 
  through 
  

   their 
  lower 
  beds 
  to 
  the 
  cement 
  rock. 
  This 
  anticlinal 
  extends 
  into 
  

   the 
  eastern 
  slope 
  of 
  the 
  ridge 
  southward, 
  and 
  this 
  slope 
  consists 
  

   of 
  an 
  east-dipping 
  mass 
  of 
  Pentamtrus 
  limestone 
  to 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  

   second 
  section 
  in 
  plate 
  7, 
  where 
  the 
  cement 
  rock 
  comes 
  to 
  the 
  

   surface. 
  

  

  The 
  Oriskany, 
  upper 
  Shaly, 
  Becraft 
  and 
  lower 
  Shaly 
  beds 
  

   cross 
  the 
  railroad 
  just 
  south 
  of 
  Whiteport 
  station 
  and 
  extend 
  to 
  

   the 
  southwest 
  in 
  the 
  synclinal 
  already 
  described. 
  The 
  beds 
  are 
  

   all 
  well 
  exposed 
  in 
  tie 
  railroad 
  cuts, 
  the 
  Oriskany 
  outcropping 
  

   just 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  station 
  and 
  the 
  limestones 
  a 
  few 
  rods 
  south. 
  

   Just 
  behind 
  the 
  station 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  synclinal 
  tongue 
  of 
  Eso;ius 
  

   shales, 
  which 
  terminates 
  less 
  than 
  a 
  mile 
  south, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  slopes 
  

   and 
  ridge 
  east 
  there 
  are 
  upper 
  Shaly, 
  Becraft 
  and 
  lower 
  Shaly 
  

   beds 
  dipping 
  steeply 
  westward 
  as 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  section, 
  

   figure 
  9, 
  and 
  section 
  II, 
  plate 
  7. 
  The 
  Becraft 
  beds 
  are 
  deeply 
  

   quarried 
  on 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  the 
  ridge 
  and 
  are 
  well 
  exposed 
  at 
  a 
  

   number 
  of 
  points 
  along 
  the 
  rim 
  of 
  the 
  synclinal 
  southward. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  western 
  limb 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  Rosendale-Whiteport 
  

   anticlinal 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  flexures 
  which 
  come 
  in 
  from 
  

   the 
  north 
  and 
  northwest 
  and 
  gradually 
  pitch 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  south- 
  

   ward. 
  They 
  are 
  first 
  observed 
  as 
  low 
  undulations 
  in 
  the 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  limestones 
  and 
  Esopus 
  shales 
  about 
  Hurley, 
  as 
  before 
  men- 
  

   tioned. 
  They 
  bring 
  to 
  the 
  surface 
  the 
  Oriskany 
  sandstones 
  and 
  

   Helderberg 
  limestones 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  southwest 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  Bin- 
  

   newaters, 
  and 
  along 
  Rondout 
  creek 
  they 
  bring 
  up 
  the 
  cement 
  

   series 
  over 
  a 
  considerable 
  area. 
  Their 
  general 
  relations 
  are 
  

   shown 
  in 
  plate 
  7, 
  and 
  in 
  part 
  in 
  figure 
  7. 
  The 
  first 
  of 
  these 
  

   subordinate 
  anticlinals 
  westward 
  is 
  finely 
  exhibited 
  in 
  a 
  cliff 
  at 
  

  

  