Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 164
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"August 30 continued to same dimensions as localiz'd. It's also a mg.ls. man and as it is long weathered shows almost no joints. It is much fractured by test tube movements. We now see no rounded sand grains or any sandy matrix - all in mg.l.s. If one notices, one either side and once particular to the east are junctions of various kinds of holds, small and large and all often long immersed in the green oh. To me it looks like a man of clay that has been rolled and pushed and squeezed about by the folding and thrusting movements. Then looked up the clay along the distal mine R.R. One comes at once below the rail up the lines into Earl Lewis, it is a flat pottle clay with the taste of the rounded quartz ss., and followed on by another angle of sandstone pieces in the same limit of quartz sand. Have a piece of it. This angle may be regarded as an introfomational angle, and may have no foreign rocks at all. Further east along the R.R. is a much thicker clay with flat pottles and the same rounded sand grains. Have a piece. It also appears to be an introfomational clay. A little further east is the famous Tetrapaptus - Philographus of locality. We made no attempts to get a good collection which can be done easily with tools. Only along some striking slabs. The A and B ls clay seen in the Lewis cliffs and up