Title: Geology of the Narragansett basin
Identifier: CUbiodiversity24905 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906; Woodworth, Jay Backus, 1865-1925; Foerste, Aug. F. (Aug. Frederic), 1862-1936
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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110 GEOLOGY OF THE NAEEAGANSBTT BASIK. monograph. Lingulse (now Obolns, see p. 113) were found in a pebble in the red Carboniferous conglomerate on the east bank of Abbots Run, between Lanesville and Arnolds Mills, Ehode Island. Eastward an Obolus pebble was found on the beach near Marshfield, Massachusetts, together with a large fragment of quartzite carrying the long, parallel, closely set burrows of ScoUthus linearis. Both of these fragments were within the nossible range
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30 71 30 70^ I'IG. 5.—Sketch map of distribution of upper Cambrian pebbles. The nortb-south lines represent the supposed direction of glacial motion during the maximum development of the JS'ew England glacier. of glacial stream drift from the northeastemmost outcrops of Carboniferous conglomerate in the main basin. In July, 1895, I found a small sand-blasted Obolus pebble on the cHff near Highland Light in Truro, at the northern extremity of Cape Codj and another pebble, carrying the same brachiopod, was found in an ancient beach on the ocean side of Provincetown. These pebbles are so far to the east of the known Carboniferous conglomerates on the mainland that their derivation from the main basin or from the Norfolk Basin seems improbable, particularly for the reason that the movements of the glacial currents and

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