This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...the above species, Leptodesma Rogers'i, Hall, was reported, probably from this cut.5 XLI Cn. A railroad cut on the New York, Ontario and Western railroad, about two and one-half miles southeast of the Oxford station and one-quarter of a mile north of the 214th New York mile post. The cut is through red and greenish ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...the above species, Leptodesma Rogers'i, Hall, was reported, probably from this cut.5 XLI Cn. A railroad cut on the New York, Ontario and Western railroad, about two and one-half miles southeast of the Oxford station and one-quarter of a mile north of the 214th New York mile post. The cut is through red and greenish shales, alternating with thin grey sandstones. The dip is at least sixty feet to the mile, twenty degrees west of south. A layer of the nature of a conglomerate, containing an occasional quartz pebble, was noticed. Fucoidal markings occur in the grey sandstones, while in thin layers quite a number of fossil shells are preserved. The following species from this cut are listed in the Fifth Annual Report of the New York State Geologist: "Macrodon Hamiltoniw, Actinapteria Boydi (?), Actinopteria sp. (?), Modiomorpha subalata (?), Leptodcsma sp., Strophodoiita perplana."' The altitude of this cut, taken from the profile of the New York, Ontario and Western railroad, is approximately 1,560 feet A. T. This locality is three and one-half miles west of south of Lyon brook bridge, and the difference in altitude between the base of the red shale and this cut is 348 feet. If the dip for the distance is sixty feet per mile, then the thickness of the rocks is 558 feet, all of which may be regarded as belonging in the Oneonta formation. 'Proceedings American Association Advancement of Science, Vol. XXXIX., p. 397. 3 American Geologist, Vol. VI., pp. 255-257. 3 Proceedings United States National Museum, Vol. XIV., p. 456. Fourth edition, 1895, fig. 963 on p. 616; see also p. 618. Fifth Annual Report State Geologist New York, p. 11, 2d paragraph. XLI C2. One-fourth mile southeast of Summit station, or five miles from Oxford station, is another railroad ...
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