﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist. 
  731 
  

  

  comes 
  out 
  in 
  heavier 
  blocks, 
  but 
  is 
  evidently 
  softer. 
  Twelve 
  

   feet. 
  

  

  (2) 
  Softish 
  green 
  sandstone 
  passing 
  into 
  six 
  inches 
  to 
  one 
  foot 
  

   of 
  green 
  shales. 
  Four 
  feet. 
  

  

  (3) 
  Red 
  sandstones, 
  flags, 
  red 
  shales 
  interlaminated 
  with 
  green, 
  

   full 
  of 
  small 
  irregular 
  concretionary 
  nodules 
  which 
  on 
  weather- 
  

   ing 
  give 
  the 
  face 
  of 
  the 
  rock 
  a 
  coarsely 
  cellular 
  appearance. 
  The 
  

   sandstone 
  is 
  usually 
  soft 
  and 
  frequently 
  discolored 
  with 
  patches 
  

   of 
  green. 
  Toward 
  the 
  base, 
  between 
  the 
  shale 
  layers 
  it 
  is 
  com- 
  

   pact 
  and 
  free 
  of 
  nodules. 
  The 
  colors 
  are 
  brilliant. 
  Six 
  feet. 
  

  

  (4) 
  Red, 
  green 
  and 
  dark 
  clay 
  shales, 
  often 
  soft 
  and 
  weathering 
  

   into 
  fine, 
  thin 
  fragments. 
  The 
  smooth 
  surfaces 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  shales 
  

   show 
  rain-drop 
  (?) 
  impressions 
  and 
  the 
  tracks 
  of 
  crustaceans 
  

   or 
  annelids. 
  Three 
  feet. 
  

  

  (5) 
  Greenish 
  shaly 
  sandstone 
  breaking 
  out 
  into 
  irregular 
  flat 
  

   pieces. 
  Eight 
  feet. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  quarry 
  work 
  all 
  these 
  layers 
  are 
  stripped 
  to 
  (1). 
  

  

  Division 
  (2) 
  contains 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  a 
  green 
  sandy 
  stratum 
  with 
  

   "■fucoidal 
  " 
  surface 
  markings, 
  similar 
  in 
  lithological 
  character 
  to 
  

   fish-bearing 
  strata 
  observed 
  at 
  Greene 
  and 
  Smithville 
  and, 
  with- 
  

   out 
  fish-bones, 
  at 
  South 
  Oxford. 
  

  

  No 
  fossils 
  were 
  observed 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  layers 
  except 
  those 
  

   referred 
  to 
  in 
  (4) 
  and 
  traces 
  of 
  fossil 
  wood 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  sandstone. 
  

   This 
  is 
  our 
  first 
  exposure 
  of 
  the 
  Oneonta 
  sandstones 
  and 
  shales, 
  

   but 
  without 
  further 
  remark 
  here 
  upon 
  its 
  composition 
  and 
  the 
  

   almost 
  continuous 
  section 
  we 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  make 
  from 
  the 
  

   Hamilton 
  fauna 
  on 
  the 
  Chenango 
  river 
  into 
  these 
  rocks, 
  it 
  is 
  

   desirable 
  to 
  present 
  the 
  exposure 
  at 
  station 
  E, 
  which 
  caps 
  the 
  

   section. 
  

  

  Station 
  K 
  From 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  quarry 
  at 
  D 
  upward 
  into 
  the 
  

   woods 
  are 
  scattered 
  exposures 
  which 
  afford 
  approximately 
  the 
  

   following 
  superposition 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  up 
  : 
  

  

  (1) 
  A 
  fawn-colored 
  or 
  light 
  buff 
  sandstone 
  of 
  glittering 
  quartz 
  

   and 
  feldspar 
  grains 
  with 
  iron 
  dots 
  ; 
  even-grained, 
  compact, 
  not 
  

   schistose 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  though 
  slaty 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Thickness 
  of 
  

   slaty 
  portion, 
  three 
  feet; 
  of 
  compact 
  portion, 
  three 
  feet 
  six 
  

   inches. 
  This 
  very 
  peculiar 
  and 
  pretty 
  sandstone 
  is 
  not 
  well 
  

   exposed 
  at 
  any 
  place, 
  but 
  loosened 
  blocks 
  of 
  it 
  have 
  been 
  hauled 
  

   off 
  and 
  occasionally 
  made 
  use 
  of 
  in 
  ihe 
  village 
  of 
  Norwich, 
  as 
  in 
  

  

  