Word: outcrop
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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...conducted by Professor Emerson, of Amherst College. Leaving the Boston and Albany station at 7.15 p. m., the party will spend the night at the "Norwood" in Northampton. the first thing visited on Saturday will be the fossil fish beds at the foot of Mt. To by and the outcrop of quartz schist and amphibolite, these being "buried peaks," which the glacial scouring has revealed below the Triassic conglomerate. Fragments of these rocks may be traced in the conglomerate for miles southward. This is in the centre of the interesting Triassic or New Red Sandstone region, the source...