peossee] CATSKILL MOUNTAINS SECTIONS. 6*5 
ently underlain by red sliale and sandstone, but the rather prominent 
ledge on the western side of the hill is composed of the coarse gray, 
fine-bedded sandstone. These exposures from Phoenicia to the sum- 
mit are characteristic deposits of the Oatskill stage of southeastern 
New York. 
SECTIONS IN CATSKLLL MOUNTAINS, GKREENE COUNTY, N. Y. 
When the summit of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad was reached 
at the Grand Hotel station, where the rocks are well up in the Oatskill 
stage, I returned to Phoenicia and followed the line of the Stony 
Clove and Oatskill Mountain and Kaaterskill railroads to Kaaterskill 
station, which is less than 1 mile from the eastern face of the Oatskill 
Mountains at the Oatskill Mountain House, above Palenville. 
About Lanesville, 5 miles from Phoenicia, are a number of small quar- 
ries, but none are worked to any extent. The Barber quarry, No. 1058 
PI on the land of Lane and Barber, about 1 mile southwest of Lanesville, 
contains at the base bluish-gray sandstones, then a layer of blue shale 
which has some clay pebbles; above this, thin-bedded sandstones, and 
on top the pink sandstone. There are masses of plant stems on some 
of the shaly rock, and many of the sandstones contain branching fern 
stipes ? but no pinnules are preserved. 
Lanesville railroad station is approximately 1,350 feet A. T., estimat- 
ing by the reading of barometer from Phoenicia, and this quarry is some 
350 feet higher, or about 1,700 feet A. T. 
Toward the foot of the hill, not far from Mr. Lane's "cold springy' is 
an old quarry (1058 P3) of reddish sandstone. Some of the reddish, 
arenaceous shales contain fragments of A rchceopteris, but no good speci- 
mens were found. In this quarry, or the small excavation in the bluish- 
gray sandstone and shale by the " cold spring," Mr. Gilbert van Ingen 
secured quite good specimens of Archceopteris. 
Across the valley, northwest of Lanesville station, is a quarry (1058 
Ql) composed of bluish-gray sandstone and blue shale. In the shale 
are plant stems and fragments of Lepidodendron. 
Partner up the side of the mountain, on Mr. Barber's farm, is another 
small quarry (1058 Q2) about 300 feet above railroad level, or, approxi- 
mately, 1,050 feet A. T. The stone is the pink sandstone, alternating 
with red shale. On part of the sandstone slabs in the upper portion of 
the quarry are the best specimens of the fucoid (?) markings ot these 
red rocks that have been found. One of the best of these specimens is 
now in the U. S. National Museum at Washington. This shows a 
plant of comparatively large size, with base of stem, large stipe, and 
numerous branches. This specimen is regarded as belonging to Balis- 
erites, by one paleobotanist, while it resembles in some characters 
specimens of Chondrites as O. lanceolatusJjdwg.^ or compare Palceophy- 
cus gracilis Ldwg., 2 which in branching and general appearance is 
il>aleoiitograpMea, Vol. XVII, No. :i, 18G9, PI. six, fig. 6, p. 112. 
a Ibid,, PI. 18, fig. G, p. 111. 
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