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August 5-1921, Friday.
Spent the entire day along the western side
of Lake Bomoseen which is west of Castleton
several miles. This is in the slate belt and
many quarries one seen taking out purple
and green slates. The slate belt gone is
probably not wider than 50 feet though in
places probably as much as 100 feet has
been quarried out. Some days later we saw in the
bend of a river that they slate are of the same age.
Just above the purple and green quarried
slate is a zone about 10- feet thick of slate
interledded with thin limestone that range from
one to four inch thick. These are always much further
apart and jointed into the shales; they are always
jointed in many directions and the joints filled
with crystalline calcite. These limestones have
Loran Cambrian fossils, and still for what
maybe Eordiscus (specimens) and I for a form Orstella orana.
If these are what they appear to be the age
of the rocks is undoubtedly Loran Cambrian,