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St. Albans - New Haven, Conn.
Monday October 20 - 1930
A bright but very cold morning. We are off to New
Haven by 8 A.M. and arrived at New Haven at 8
P.M., having come just 300 miles. We came via
Burlington, Vergenne, Rutland, Bennington, Lonox,
Pittsfield, New Canaan, Farmington to New Haven.
At Burlington I went N. of the city about 2 or 3
miles to the estate of the Episcopal Bishop where there
on the shore of Chaumont
is a high cliff having the over thrust of Brimrock diorite
on the Trenton shale. The latter are greatly rolled and dis-
torted and split through by quartz veins, while the underside of
the Brinrock is flatly dipping thus the thrust comes from the S.E.
and not directly E. This is the Champlain fault. It's the