Field Notebook: Florida, Quebec, Vermont. 1929, 1930
Page 69
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Tuesday Aug. 26, continued and 10' long; still another several feet long and of which I have two pieces. One supports the trunk of a tree fern, and another was hollow with the cavity filled with crystals. Looked hard for fossils and saw but one small piece of a ferrosity of Devonian character. This was just above red core, colors extend to [illegible] and East. These strata stand on end ranging in dip from 40-75 deg. S N.50E. (strike N,30W.). These are clearly the northern limb of an anticline with the arch to the S and the syncline to the N; namely Malvoy. See to sketch to left. Beneath the above cphs. are about 75' of a brick-red muddy ss with green stains (due to percolating waters) and goes 4 or more feet the cyl. (see sample). Also goes off