Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
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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