. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. Fte. 5 Local section at Rocky point showing ^^^rlying sauds, recalling many deformetl blue clays and banded sands, uncon- SCCtioUS OU Cape Cod bay in formably overlain by till with boulders up to 2 > r 1 ,, m feet in diameter, passing laterally into strati- ^iassacUUSCttS. 1 iie Upper ])art ^'^^™^^* of the sands carries boulders; the whole may well be a basal portin,, of the Columbia. At one point a small fold overturned southward has passed into a reverse fold-fault. Viewed as an over- thrust, the movement has been northward. To accord with the
. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. Fte. 5 Local section at Rocky point showing ^^^rlying sauds, recalling many deformetl blue clays and banded sands, uncon- SCCtioUS OU Cape Cod bay in formably overlain by till with boulders up to 2 > r 1 ,, m feet in diameter, passing laterally into strati- ^iassacUUSCttS. 1 iie Upper ])art ^'^^™^^* of the sands carries boulders; the whole may well be a basal portin,, of the Columbia. At one point a small fold overturned southward has passed into a reverse fold-fault. Viewed as an over- thrust, the movement has been northward. To accord with the hypothesis of glacial thrust acting from the north, it is necessary to suppose that underthrusting has taken j^lacc. The railroad from Oyster Bay to Koslyn passes through three deep cuts in an eastwest valley in Mill Neck. In the cut nearest Ovster with boulders; C, J^^,.^ .^l^i^j^j^ ^^ ^j^^j^j^j^ ^^^^^^^ ^;^^^_ ably Cretaceous, appear at the bot- tom, succeeded bv about 30 feet of coarse gravels, ill stratified and. FUC. 0 Section at headland on south- 'f«« of I nt. A, clay: ». yel- lowiHh >- . earthy Kravel. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum; New York State Museum. Albany : New York State Education Dept
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