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St. Albans, Vt, Saturday Oct. 18 1930
After being camped butas Mrs Knoff did not arrive until 8.25 we did not get started until after 9a.m.
Went north to see the Swanton (= Keel) cmyl. All were thrilled at the evidence but no one was finally able to prove if the big ls about 60' long was broken or a lentil resting on the Highgate slate. The bigger one at Rockledge Lamprell felt might be a lentil in the Highgate slate and on which the Swanton cmyl formed unconformity.
Then stopped to see the Swanton cmyl, a little north of Keels Corner. Here it soon became evident that the Swanton cmyl lies angularly unconformably above the Mallett sandy (and a quantity of dike cuts cut both the Mallett and the Swanton's dolomite). In the opinion of Lamprell and myself that in close of the Cambrian (i.e. after Highgate slate time) the C. [primary not strong but at least enough to make an angular uncon] was deformed and eroded before the early Ordovician [Bequia] sea thus spread across a hemmorary surface, cutting down the elevations above sea level and making the local lenses of Swanton (= Keel) cmylomite. Long-wrecc caps lie dips and strikes of the C. formations is different from those of the Swanton cmyl. This then proves that the angular unconformity Keilt, Remtara, and down 1/2 mile south Canadian bridge is actually an unconformity, and that Raymond is wrong in saying due is more here.
The great holes of ls in the Swanton cmyl puzzle us. The apparent flow structure may all be due to a calefplown