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how the Newark system might be preserved in this belt and not else- 

 where, even if its deposits had once extended far to the east. 



5. The rivers of Connecticut by their orientation appear to betray a 

 relation to certain of the fault directions as worked out in the Pomperaug 

 Valley area, within which and about which such a connection can be 

 clearly shown.* A causal relationship of the one to the other is not 

 difficult to conceive, provided the streams began their cutting in the 

 Newark sediments, which easily sustain fractures along fault planes. 



* Cf. Hobbs : Twenty-first Ann. Report U. S. Geological Survey, 1901, chap. v. Journal of Geology, 

 vol. ix, 1901, pp. 469-484. Science, vol. xiv, 1901, pp. 1011, 1012. 



