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long to the basal sandstone in which 

 case the great stratic unconformity be- 

 tAveen the higher Champlainic and late 

 Siluric beds is probably below the level 

 of the Schoharie valley at this point. 



4 Section of city quarry behind the Lutheran cemetery, 



Schoharie 



Fig. 191 and pi. 17 

 This section extends to the top of the cliff at the stairway 

 leading to the park behind the cemetery. 



y^ft Coeymans 



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Feet Inches 



Fig. 191 Section 

 of city quarry 



h 1 Typical Coeymans, coarse lime sandrocks 

 with typical fossils, forming ledge in the 

 Avoods above the cemetery. At the base 

 the cliff is Aveathered back in a rock shel- 

 ter, and it is here, in the lowest layers 

 that Melocrinus pachy dacty 1- 

 u s Avas found. 



Thickness approximately 15 



Transition beds 



g 4-7 Covered slope Avith exception of small 

 outcrops of fine lime sandrocks with 

 Stropheodonta v a r i s t r i a t a . . 5 

 g3 Very fine lime saudrock almost I i me mud- 

 rocks with S t r o p h eodont a v a r - 



istriata 1 



g 2 CoA 7 ered slope 5 



ae 



upper portion of 



gl Irregularly bedded lime sandrocks and lime 



mudrocks 

 quarrv Avail 



forming 



Total transition 12 



Manlius 



f 13 Irregular beds passing into those above and 



forming cliff with it . ... . 4 



