Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
Page 45
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I advise employees, the pieces are of all sizes from very small ones to three 3 to 4 and even 6 inches across. Sometimes these cylinders are badly squeezed and drawn out. They are the ochrestone where the pellets are much thinner and more elongated. See my sample. These flat pellet conglomerate have the pellets usually of limestone, and one wonders when the limestone were came from some such formations are not to be seen. Are they probably the semi-crumbled limestone of a year or two of accumulation not far diaforetically attuned to dolomite before entire cement in the dolomite? Extra get thought me for aug li at Shipgate Forky. The gravel conglomerate seen not far from Senjia Center are most interesting because of the quantity of pellets, their large size, and the little dolomitic parts that find them together. Some of the blocks are 8 feet long and the others divisions may be 6 and 4 feet. They consist of three kinds of dolomites, of the older formations. However one sees no flumar sand rock, nor brown white quartzite, and nor