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10. Brownish sandstone, very fossiliferous, 15' 



11. Olive shales and flaggy sandstone to bottom of exposure all 



very fossiliferous, 25' 



No. 2 is the same as 13 of the previous section, and comes 

 here at an elevation of 220' above the level of Susquehanna 

 Depot, or (914-[-220) 1134/ above tide, nearly 150' higher 

 than where it occurs at Lanesboro' 2J miles south. 



No. 4 is a brownish-red, and dark olive-brown shale, very 

 finely laminated, fissile, and weathering down to a common 

 level on the exposure just north of the R.R. 



About 3' above the base of No. 5 is a conglomerate or 

 brecciated mass of shells, fishbones, pebbles of shale and 

 sandstone, all cemented into a mass of calcareo-siliceous 

 material ; it most probably represents one of the Chemung 

 fish beds of which Mr. Sherwood speaks in his report on 

 Bradford and Tioga. 



Plant bed. — No. 6 is finely exposed here, making a very 

 bold outcrop around the sides of the gorge, a very coarse, 

 massive, yellowish-white sandstone, and contains immense 

 quantities of vegetable fragments, mostly carbonized and 

 coaly specimens of limbs and branches, none of which can be 

 referred to their genera or even orders for that matter. The 

 lower portion of the rock also contains multitudes of shells, 

 principally Spirifers and Rhynchonellas, all of Chemung 

 type. The stratum also contains a considerable quantity of 

 Pyrite, since the lower portion of the exposed face is frosted 

 over with yellowish looking copperas. 



This member of the Chemung comes about 350' below the 

 base of the New Milford Lower sandstone or 130' below the 

 top of the Chemung. I have traced the same Catskill sand- 

 stone rocks through to Bradford county, and there find the 

 Fall creek conglomerate of Sherwood coming 325' below 

 the same New Milford Lower sandstone. This taken in 

 connection with the fact that a massive sandstone or con- 

 glomerate is found in several intermediate places at the same 

 horizon, renders the proof positive that the Cascade creek 

 S. 8. and Fall creek conglomerate are identical. As al- 

 ready stated, I believe them identical with the Panama con- 

 glomerate and 3rd Oil Sand of Venango. In this I agree 



