Field Notebook: Florida, Georgia, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington. 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
Page 85
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"encountered three toric basalt dikes. Near the sharp turn on road the three dikes are well exposed on both sides of the road. One dike is very flat across strike and dips slightly over the granite (have a piece). The intermediate dike is split with very irregular walls; one side has 18" of basalt, than 12" of altered granite, and 12" of basalt. Some of the exposures are half inch across and sections run in 2 feet vertically. Shore normal pairs of it. The largest diame is 8 feet across, having pair of it. Obs of the granite here. The outcrop's pair the granite surface bottom dike. It is near to dikes and mostly altered basalt,