. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 136 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM horizons within the Trenton limestone. The lower contorted zone, whose base lies 144 feet below the top of the Trenton, is from 4 to 6 feet thick. It is visible only near the crest of the lower part of the High fall (see accompanying plate) and in the upper end of the gorge near Prospect village where the strata are highly in- clined. The upper contorted zone, whose base lies 65 or 70 feet below the top of the Trenton, is from about 5 to 12 or 15 feet thick. It is well exhibited along the path opposite High fal
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 136 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM horizons within the Trenton limestone. The lower contorted zone, whose base lies 144 feet below the top of the Trenton, is from 4 to 6 feet thick. It is visible only near the crest of the lower part of the High fall (see accompanying plate) and in the upper end of the gorge near Prospect village where the strata are highly in- clined. The upper contorted zone, whose base lies 65 or 70 feet below the top of the Trenton, is from about 5 to 12 or 15 feet thick. It is well exhibited along the path opposite High fall from which point it may be traced along the sides of the gorge for nearly 2 miles to The impure limestone layers of both the folded and nonfolded portions average only a few inches in thickness and are separated by thin bands of shale. Within the folded zone horizons the layers are, in some cases, scarcely folded or broken; sometimes they are gently folded or tilted; while most commonly they are highly folded and fractured (figure 1).. retft Fig. 1. The tipper contorted and broken zone as seen along the footpath opposite the crest of High fall at Trenton Falls. Drawn from nature. Numerous observations show the strikes of the contorted zone folds to be from N. 500 E. to N. 65° E. or practically parallel to the strike of the distinct folds in the Trenton formation in this region, as well as parallel to the strike of the well-defined fault-fold line passing through the village of Prospect (see geologic map). It should also be noted that these contorted strata occur only in a very local district. As far as they can he ascertained they are J The interested reader should consult the write Remsen quadrangle in N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 126. geologic map of the. 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 wor
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