Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 15
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August 11, 1953 St. Albans. Saturday Drove just to near St. Albans Bay and here to my surprise came to [illegible] a great deal of twisted marble that must be Bedlamite. Drove fine examples of dolomite beds carefully fragmented and dragged by the flying marble. Then returned back across the Champlain flats to the fair hill's escarpment to the north of the St. Albans Bay and going a kind of road. Gradually we again saw the Bedlamite marble, then a round area of flat or more like the Drinows no contact between Bedlamite and Drinows in view. The marble is present in full face. We then walled across three ridges of it when it gradually gave way to the Mallett. Near the base of the Mallett occurs a 30 foot zone (or thicker) of sandy dolomite conglomerate. The blocks are up to 3 feet across, angular and dis- posed in one direction, and rather scattered in the Mallett sandy dolomite. At the road south to Rug's Creek there is Mallett with some clay, and again further south of this road where the Mallett comes up. It is here a dark blue coarse sandy dol. A little further east occurs Celestine Shale. This must be the place