Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
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"Upper Cambrian\nGreen Sand drl. and quartzite. 400'-500'\nGrey dr. at white ooliterams sandstones. 300'\nGrey fine drl. 150'. Elk Oil, a Cambric.\nMarble shales. 300'\nLimestone consolidated and harden. Little to 400 ft.\nStructural break\nBlack Shale intruded with liq of Ord. area.\nThe Great Rutland marble series.\n\nThe place of the Red Vermont quartzite in N. Mass,\nI fancy upwards for a red or other dolomite 0-100 feet thickly.\nIn going north from Middlebury to Burlington\nare seen in the cross dip ridges that are made of\nof the Red Vermont quartzites. In the Shelburne\nregion they make the shores of Lake Champlain.\nIn Burlington at the falls of the Mississipi River\nthe red quartzites fan gradually into the red\nHitchcock Mississippian marbles and dolomite. Over these\nlies a great thickness of grey dolomites, all of\nwhich are thought to be of Lower Cambrian age.\nAll of those Lower Cambrian masses are con-\nstructed upon the fat little alluvial Ordovician\nseries along the shore of Lake Champlain. To\nthe east some distance but is a great fault.