Field Notebook: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Quebec, Vermont, Wisconsin. 1933, 1934
Page 82
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Transcription
Of the Bolton Syncline series The pillows here always have their outlines; The lower side is always flat, And the curved side up. These lavas must have been deposited in the sea. Clark thinks originally it was a plain and that the crystalline nature was later induced by Aeolian agency. Here I saw the basal Silurian conglomerate resting on the coral, and about 100 feet higher occurs the fossil gorge. This place is about four miles south of Knowltons Landing on the road down the first entrance to Lake. This is the first Paleozoic talus or scree deposit that I have seen.