Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
Page 157
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Tuesday August 16 1932 Wea. WED. JUNE 2, 1909 Ther. The day is very hot and feet tired or remained at the sites and worked on my Vermont papers. Wednesday August 17-1932 Took to 10 A.M. Bus to the Sminton Marble quarry. From the Marble Quarry down to the rim is all of 100 feet and above the back quarry there is about the marl bed something like 50 foot more. Now going past up the farmers old trail one sees at once a cliff of blue dol about 25' thick Then a red layer like old ones 8' A gray manior Drinoceli zone 45' Cornice area 50' Another cliff about 50' high. Fifteen feet of this breathes into slaty appearance, is dark blue and first the appearance as if it were Porter slate. Other or hemistatally Edom. It is, driven a hard magnesian series much marked by Palaeophycus and other fossils.