Prosser — Hamilton and Chemung Series. 



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village is Juliand hill, whose summit is some 300 feet above the river level, 

 and whose upper half is mainly composed of greenish argillaceous shales. 

 Clarke, in describing this hill, stated that " fossils are abundant throughout 

 these shales, and are of typical Chemung expression, viz : 



Atryjm, reticularis, large, rugose; common. 



Orthis impressa, large form; abundant. 



Liorhynch us globuUformis, common. 



Spvrifer mesacostaMs. 



Prockbctella IocIm ymosa. 



Stropheodonta perplana var. nervosa. 



( ryptmyella, s.p.' n 



In the lower part of the greenish or Chemung rocks, near the north- 

 western corner of the corporation of Greene village, is a sandstone containing 

 coarse quartz pebbles which, some years ago, the writer designated as the 

 Greene conglomerate. This stratum contains fragments of fossil fish, as stated 

 l>\ Clarke, who writes that the lower part "contains Holoriema cf. rugosa, 

 Claypole, undetermined plates, scales and teeth." 2 In the same exposure, but 

 a little higher, Clarke noted "fish remains common," and Lingula cf. Cuya- 

 hoga, Leptodesma cf. sociale (single specimen)". 3 To the southwest of the 

 village is the old Cameron quarry. The lowest rocks of this quarry contain 

 scarcely any fossils except Tentacnlites sp. and large Crinoid segments, while 

 the shah layers of the upper part of the exposure contain fossils, but of only 

 a few species. This quarry was described by Yanuxem, who stated that it 

 was the " only opening noticed in the hills at Greene,", and referred it to the 

 Chemung group. 4 



XXX VI A 1 . In the extreme southwestern corner of Greene township 

 are the villages of Williards and Chenango Forks. On the hillside west of the 

 Utica division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, between 

 Chenango Forks and Williards, is an old quarry that was opened during the 

 construction of the Chenango canal and is not worked at present, the base of 

 w hich is about sixty-three feet above the railroad track. The rocks consist 

 of blue, argillaceous, thin or shaly sandstones, separated by blue shales, all of 

 which weather to an olive tint. 



Fossils are common in most of the rock and abundant in layers. Pro- 

 ductella lachrymosa (Con.), Hall; Spirifer mucronatus (Con.), lull., var. 



• Thirteenth Annual Report State Geologist [New York], p. 543. 

 » Ibid., p. 545. 



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* Geology ofNew York, Part III., 1842, p. 393. 



