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of the normal type listing the L.C. series down.
To the darkward I this fault comes in the
[illegible] type
Ordovician series but all are much altered
and drawn out, and practically no forms can
be had.
What is the position of the Vermont Red
quartzite and the succeeding dolomites? Is it
a western phase of the eastern white quartzite?
If not are they the eastern phase of the Potsdam
and the succeeding Little Falls dolomites? No!
What is the relation of the redning slate
series of the Lower Cambrian to the white quartzite
and the dolomites of the known basal L.C.?
Keith does not yet have the field relations
determined and as yet has nowhere seen contact
to demonstrate the age relations,
The basal white quartzite are clear washed fine
sands, and are now nitreous and intensely hard ad
splitting like glass. Similar are the quartzites
deep in the upper Cambrian.
The Vermont red quartzites are red in color