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measurement of Ashburner 1 from the Delaware 

 and Hudson Railroad station to the base of the 

 Rondout water-lime belong in the Lorraine beds. 

 This thickness, added to the 2880 feet of shales 

 and thin sandstones passed through in the Alta- 

 mont well before reaching the top of the Trenton 

 limestone, gives a thickness of 3475 feet for the 

 Lorraine and Utica formations at this locality. 

 Along the small brook in which the gas well is 

 located there are exposures of the Lorraine beds, 

 consisting of bluish to grayish argillaceous shales, 

 with an occasional sandstone stratum ; but the 

 upper part of the zone is covered around the slope 

 of High Point 646-646 



About 3^ miles southwest of Altamont, on the road from Alta- 

 mont to Knox, is a conspicuous ledge of the Pentamerus [Coey- 

 mans] limestone ... to the east of the road, which at this 

 locality is very fossiliferous, and the weathering and fires have 

 so decomposed parts of the massive cliff that it makes an excel- 

 lent place for collecting. Along the road from Altamont there 

 are alternating exposures of sandstones and shales, sandstones 

 predominating, with a thickness of 635 feet by the barometer 

 without allowing for the dip, which would increase the amount; 

 then 210 feet are covered when this Pentamerus [Coeymans] 

 ledge is reached, 845 feet higher than Altamont. It is not clear 

 whether the base of the Pentamerus [Coeymans] is shown or not, 

 but the Tentaculite [Maul ins] is covered, and only 30 feet of the 

 Pentamerus [Coeymans] is exposed. The following species were 

 collected at this place. 



1 Sieberella galeata ( Dal. ) H. & C. aa 



2 Atrypa reticularis (Lin.) Dal. a 



3 Strophonella punctulifera (Con.) Hail c 



4 Stropheodonta varistriata (Con.) Hall r 



5 Spirifer perlamellosus Hall r 



6 Uncinulus mutabilis (Tfall) 11. & C. r 



7 U. pvramidatus (Hall) H. d- C. rr 



21 Indian Ladder section 



Prosser 



Near the northern end of the Belderberg mountains, about 

 south of Meadowdale, on the Susquehanna division of the Dela- 

 ware and Hudson railroad, is the highway known as the Indian 



l The railroad station (formerly Knowersvllle) is 459 feet A. T.. and 

 Ashburner gave the altitude of the gas well's mouth as 510 A. T.. and the 

 base of the Lower Helderberg limestones as 596 feel vertically above the 

 mouth of the well [Am. lust. Min. Eng. Traus. L6:961J. 



