Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900-Twenty-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Society (1901) (14781337351)

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Title: Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900--Twenty-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Society
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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Contributing Library: Clemson University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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HOBBs) LIFE REMAINS IN NEWARK SYSTEM. 23 three-fourths of the entire distance. Emerson also states that in theMassachusetts area the material has not been altogether of local deri-vation. He sajs:^ On Fox Brook, south of the road from West ^Mountain, hi Bernardston, the verycoarse arkose can be seen ahnost in contact with the schists, showing that ahnostfrom tlie beginning the strong northward tidal currents carried their granitic mate-rial even into this far northern portion of the basin. In the Richmond Basin Shaler and Woodworth lind evidences ofthe movement of sediments northward and westward.^ Keith finds that the Newark sediments of the Catoctin belt werederived from several near-lying foci, and that the currents whichcarried them moved from north to south.^ The greater portion of the clastic rocks of the Newark have beendescribed as sandstones and shales, characterized almost throughoutby a reddish-brown color due to the oxidation of iron. It is likewisecharacteristic of them t