Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
Page 69
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Then passed through Parton. One mile south of Guilford occur sandy slate in strips beds of quartzite At Attot in the river in the first exposure can be seen. It is very light blue, very fine grained and much con- colided quartzite. As a rule in thick beds. They continue upstream but for far I do not know. Below the bridge is a gradual mine but here the strata occur in several beds. The thickness is at least some hundreds of feet thick. So far we have seen nothing like this series. Under the North Attot bridge occur dark green sandy slates much altered. Strike N. 45 E. At Mmom occur large slate quarries in a very dark blue slate that has some dark blue coarse sand- stone. The layers of this sandstone has torn of shale payments that are now highly polished due to the friction of movement. These slates are very worn and not crinkled and folded as is or common in slate quarries, just here that is also an immense amount of refuse. We all looked for 1/2 drums for miles without results. The slate are considerably traversed by quartz veins. Stopping at the Thomas Hotel (private house) at Mmom.