Cushing — Geology of Clinton County. 



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Calciferous sandrock This formation, w hich is so widespread in Beek- 

 mantown, just to the south, makes but little display iu Chazy, appearing only 

 in the extreme south, where the upper beds are shown, soon to he followed 

 toward the north by the Chazy. The exposures are poor and possess little 

 interest. 



Chazy limestone. Here is the type locality of the Chazy, and nearly the 

 w hole of the formation is exceedingly well show n, [n the near vicinity of 



Chazy village it has been carefully sectioned and mapped by Brainard and 

 Seely. For convenience of reference their section is here reproduced.* 



MEASUREMENTS AT ( HAZY IN ASCENDING ORDER. 



Qrmtp - 1 . 



1. Iron-grey, fine grained dolomitic limestone, in beds one or two 

 feet in thickness, weathering drab w ith fine yellowish streaks at 

 right angles to plane of bedding, containing Orthis COStalis and 

 crinoidal fragments, 110 ft. 



♦American Geologist, November, 1888, p. 324. 



