FIFTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I908 



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lated patch, about 4 miles long, of Neodevonic West Hill sand- 

 stones and shales appears in the deep valley of Meads creek below 

 Monterey, from below the overlying High Point sandstone, and 



and superjacent beds, below Monterey, N. Y. Scale i m. — i in. 



is surrounded by all the following beds of the series up to and 

 including the Chemung sandstones and shales [see text fig. 12]. 

 It is apparent that here the gradient of the creek is locally greater 

 than the southwestern component of the southern dip of the rocks. 



The last two instances seem to indicate that it is not necessary 

 that the dip and course of a brook coincide for the formation of 

 an inlier, as long as the gradient of the brook becomes greater 

 than the component of the dip of the rocks that runs in the 

 direction of its course. 



It would not seem probable that inlier resulting from different 



