Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Saturday August 13, 1932 Wea. WED. MAY 19, 1909 Ther. A fine cool day after the rain of last evening, but I do not feel like walking and geologying. Dr. State on hours walk east of the hree (three) end of the village of St. Albans. Many fine fossils and some of the walls are paved with slabs of pink Armorian quartzite and what look like slabs of the iron bedded chert rocks. The former show fine translation ripple, track marks of the run up of the scours and these slabs were reflate (reflected) with rain pittings. These phenomena show unmistakable local evidence of very shallow sea. On the Armorian slabs pitting is also com- mon mostly oscillation with some translation rip- ple. On these I saw neither track marks nor rain imprints. Evidently the water was deeper, but it could not have been much deeper than 20 feet. Here the material must also have been granular, hardly grains of dolomite with fine sand cemented by dolomite. Phenomena as before show that the Armorian is a very shallow deposit, and it may enclose rock as far as it was deeper than 100 feet.