Flakeyness

Brine-Salt made by any former Proceſs, all poſſible care being taken, has evermore two main defects, flakeyneſs and ſoftneſs.

The flakeyness will depend entirely on having the dough dry, keeping all ingredients cold and not letting the dough get messed up.

The upper Ordovician Martinsburg formation, which lies beneath most of this section of valley, is easy to recognize by its dark gray color, flakeyness, and interbeds of muddy sandstone.