Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 55
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Wednesday, Sep. 12-1923 Belfast. Left Belfast at 7.30 m a trg, and drove south tr Camden and Rockport. Four miles south of Belfast are one much Pentwort, Apparently much intruded by diorite or all is diorite with quartz pieces of the Pentwort that have increased. See sample. Then climbed half way up Mt Battle just back of Camden. To me the Mt appeared to be all quartzite conglomerate with most of the pebbles and the matrix all of albite quartzite. There are however some almost black quartzite pieces in it and my rare a small piece of a crystalline quartzite, fair pebbles up to 12" but most are under 4 inches. Most of them are flat sub- circular pebbles, but there is also much angular material. See the two pieces from Mt Battle and a sample tried on the shore at Hog Cove just south of Camden. Then we looked at the Rockport liq quarries for [illegible] lime. They are very deep vertical quarries in a stiff orange fully or marble quarry. Have two samples. One sees no bedding. Farther south or about one-half mile north of Rock- park occurs a liq conglomerate that Barton has called a intraformational eagle. It is a true conglomerate since it is made up of other pieces than the formation.