Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
Page 40
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August 8-1931. Monday. It rained considerable last night. This morning it is clear and cool. To the east of Middlebury here in Beekmantown and associated are merchantable marbles. Same occurs to the south of Middlebury. Farther north occurs the Ludlow Trenton, and some miles still farther north are the high ridges of the Vermont red sand rock. It comes out far beneath the above mentioned Ordovician. All these masses are thrusts to be contrasted to the east. The western face of the Green Mts are here lined with a white L.C. quartzite. In going south they pass beneath the L.C dolomites, and higher come in the Hp.C dolomite/marbles. The following is the sequence of the Lower C. from Middlebury south to Mass. At base the Proterozoic slates, limestone, greywackes and schists, White cleaf orbed quartzite 3-100' in Conn. Uphere tr 600'-500 feet. Grey dolomite, 1000 at Rutland. Also li.