Field Notebook: Florida, Quebec, Vermont. 1929, 1930
Page 119
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New Haven - St. Albans Vermont Friday October 17 - 1930 A fine bright and warm day. Start north at 7.45 A.M. with Professors Longwell and Knopf, in St. Albans. We went north on the College Highway to Greenfield, Mass. Our first stop was at the old Bernardston quarries one mile N. of the Bernardston Inn on the main road N. up the Conn. Valley. It had a good view of the high metamorphics is replete with large crinoid stems. Over it lies the magnetite layer 0-39 inches thick, followed by a thin slaty transition gone to the highly quartzite, the former having the abundance of brachidural everts. The quartzite in the lower part alternates with trails zones that have almost no crinoidal matter, but we did see one bed with inclusions that looked like four specimens of Favosites. The higher quartzite also have tracts of argillite, and the former appears to be all mylonitized, now resembling a metamorphosed small pebble mylonate. We then motored on to St. Albans arriving at 6.45 P.M. at the Taren Inn. We came just 300 miles in about nine hours of actual running time, aver- aging about 34 miles per hour.