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one further considers that the former series, at that locality, is 

 fully undisturbed and the other abruptly folded in closely packed 



Fig. 31 Show's formation of inliers by overthrusts. From 

 Rome quadrangle (Ga.-Ala.): ^ff^ (C in section) Cam- 



bric (Conasarga formation); Carboniferous (Floyd 



shale). Scale fwW " 



anticlines, it must be inferred that the folded mass has, as a whole, 

 been pushed upon the first series to an .unknown extent. Dr 

 Ulrich with whom I had the pleasure of discussing this view dur- 

 ing- our summer trips into 

 the Champlain region, 

 reached independently a 

 like view, finding positive 

 evidence of such a great 

 charriage in the condi- 

 tions surrounding the 



Fig. 32 Charriage (after Haug) 



north end of the Taconic mountains, where a small " outlier " 

 of Stockbridge limestone appears in the Cambric rocks and belts 

 of " Hudson slate " accompanying the Cambric inlier [see text 

 33 1 °n the west. It is there quite probable that the whole 



