Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
Page 48
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August 10-1921, Wednesday. Started north for Highgate Falls, the distance is 8 miles. For nearly 6 of it are over the Blue Limestone conglomerate, the "Giant Conglo- merate". At six miles north we came upon a little [illegible] (Rocky) spot, little [illegible], to the west of the road, exposed marble. It was undulating by tumbled slabs and contain by the Blue Limestone conglomerate. This marble replaced a length of 120 feet by 30 to 40 feet^[ and the thickness must have been 10 feet or so. The question at once arose is it a boulder or is it a piece of the old ground over which the Blue Limestone conglomerate is laid. It seems to type to be a boulder of any Alpine type of placers. Finally Keith was disposed to regard it as a piece of the old floor of the second cycle of sediment (= Mo. Cambrian to Trenton) let down to the east during Triassic faulting. [Later we also came up with this idea] I relay on again saw many fire exposures of the Giant or Blue Limestone conglomerate. As a rule the pieces are far than Blue Limestone, and