Field Notebook: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Quebec, Vermont, Wisconsin. 1933, 1934
Page 73
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Wednesday Sep. 12-1934 After breakfast autral trial to see the lower Cambrian stratigraphic succession, from on S.thongl Deanham and The Liphotby to Eccles Mt not far N.of the H.I. Boundary. Back at the Dail farm I saw the Dail slate, Armitage slate, Scottsmoe quartzite and the Oak Reef slate; those together have a thickness of 300+. Still older is the Dearham dolomite 460-160' thick, and above these the widely distributed Silman quartzite at least 2000' thick. All of these are of Lower Cambrian age, although here on Oak Reef no fossils have ever been seen. The Silman Mt has a surface upwarping from 2 to 6 miles in width. To the W.of it is the above series all foreign from the Silaramnt, while to E. and beneath the Silamon are seen the Dart Sutton slate (460-250' thick), White Park dol. (30-70') which when a ls as on Eccles Mt comes to cells fenns, Pinnacle freewoods (400') and Ball Mier slate (1-100'). These rock on the Tit. Tit Hill chlorite schist, a metamorphosed lara,