Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Monday August 15-1932 Wea. SAT. MAY 29, 1909 Ther. Started on the 10 & M. Bus north for the road east of Swanton Junction and to Rockledge etc. On the highway four ft. to the road near one mile S.E. there is a ridge of Perkas slate, saw no fms. Dips 32-35° NW, about 700' ft. try dip 15° SE, the normal dip. About ¼ mile further N. there is dolomite [? Mallett] dips in E. about 13 to 15 degrees. There in about 15' of it and beneath a fine Perkas slate dipping the same way. It is a blue- grey fine crystalline dol. with some interbedded slaty almost slate dolomite. Fossils none observed. About 100' further west is another zone of the same kind of dol. but here it has much coarse sand and in some layers almost a quartzite [? 3/3 sand and near dol.], This zone is about 10' thick. Dips E as before. Directly beneath that in a grey fine grained sandy dol. of about the same thickness. The dip is now more flat and less than 10° E. Still lower on the series (fqry W) is more slaty dol. and slate with irregular lenses of the same blue-grey thick bedded dol. It is all in layers from a few feet to 30 to 40' across. It makes a distinct ridge, the dip as before is low to the east. Still further W into the broad metal quarry where