GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE SCHOHARIE VALLEY 253 



Feet Inches 



i New Scotland beds, mostly covered but occasion- 

 ally cropping out. Form sloping bank. Ap- 

 proximately 115 



h Coeymans, forming a slope above and a cliff part 

 of which has been quarried in the middle Mix 

 and O'Reilly quarry and about 15 feet of which 

 is exposed in the cliff above the lower quarry. 

 Total 50 



g Transition beds. Mostly covered. About 12 



f Manlius as exposed in lower quarry [section 



3]. Approximately 30 



e Rondout, only the upper half of which is exposed 



in the quarry 24 6 



d Cobleskill, shown along the road opposite the 



stone crusher 6 



c Brayman shales, exposed along the road and on 



the track below the crusher 27 



b Basal sandstones (Binne water) exposure esti- 

 mated, since the contact with the Lorraine 

 beds is not exposed 20 



a Lorraine sandstones and shales, lowest exposure 



on the hill ? 5-10 



Total rock section in East hill 1114 



8 General section of West hill 



Fig. 198 



The section of West hill is the most complete and most satis- 

 factory. Some of the beds can best be studied along the road 

 leading up to West hill along Dann's hill. The road begins at 

 the point where the East Cobleskill road branches off, and climbs 

 to the Coeymans terrace on Dann's hill by a cut in the upper 

 Manlius and lower Coeymans. T( continues on this terrace to 

 a short distance beyond the stream which divides Dann's hill 

 from West hill, and then turns sharply to the left, climbing the 



