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August 4-1921. Thursday.
Left up at 6 and about 8 one are off for Ruthland.
Dre for a short distance up the Black River and then leave it. At Summit one are in the care of the Green
Mts and all the rocks are Archean,-- granites, horn-
or is it Partergne
and schist, then quartzite and dolomites.
Leaving Ludlow we see some quartzite and
phyllites. As we get through the Green Mts I learn that
the Archean is adjoined to the rocks over the Cambro-
Ordovician series. Then the mile rally of dolomites and
Cambrian quartzite, to the east of which are the modern
equivalent of the Taomic Mts. Their eastern facies
is of Lower Cambrian greenish gray quartzite said to
be several hundred feet thick. They too are pushed
to the north and underlie the Ordovician. In the rally
lies a normal fault of Triassic time.
We got to Ruthland at 9 A.M. and as the car
does not smell well one put in for repairs and must not
start out until after lunch.
At 1:30 are are off for West Ruthland to see
a little of the great marble quarries. The limestone
that lies to the south and from is lost;
rully lie in a syncline> (practically all the
quarries are in