Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
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whole pebbles, the granite rocks, All is either definite or of the quartzites interbedded with the old limits. Evidently no other rocks were exposed. The pebbles tend to be angular but the large blocks are somewhat rounded. At first one thought ice was the agent of transportation, but I will now concluded as below these conglomerates are local that torrential rivers was the form of transportation. In a local limestone conglomerate - the first one seen truly - I formed rock for more than two hours to get fossils. Reith for the first papers and after all my work I got 2 or 3 specimens of Ptychaspis or Glenflema birkens or may just spins, a large tail like Olenoides and Smithy, the tail of Bathynotus, Dancy where have seen Tridillatrogensis. On this conglomerate follows the great third area of L. Oldslates. It is in the lower 100 foot of the slate that these fossiliferous conglomerates occur,