Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wea. SAT. JAN. 9, 1909 Ther. red sandy shales, followed by mine green shales. Then a hanging series into the Oregontium red shales of the Valley. Probably most geologists would say that to have a complete sequence one from the other, but which of the two formations is the older is not clear. The general inference would be that the Levin is the older. Then climbed up the turnpike that goes east into Maine, to see the fine fold figured by Rag- mund in the Bridge Brook to the east of Chapman. It is a fine closed fold, near critical but seeming deeper at Leeman, once a lens returned. On firing with Upper Town of Lewis one should see and the redoutions boundy green shale of the Levin. Than to the stairs north of the Levin Ferry, where one sees the thin reddish limestone of the Adamming in some. Otherwise all is green shale. Are these above the thick bedded Limestone along the road to Point Lewis. If so than Johnbald say as we go to the red shales are apparently going down in the section, making the Gillery older than the Levin. Certainly they were not above the