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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