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Monday August 29-1932
Wea. THUR. JULY 22, 1909 Ther.
A dark and threatening morning but I am
visiting Dr G Smith of Milton to study the typical
area of the Milton dolomite. Took the 9.30 A.M.
bus to Burlington. Drove [illegible] miles southwest of
Milton and looked again at Whitch localities 3.
Saw the Longly's layer again but nothing more
among the other dolomites. All an anomaly due to
gelatinous grit that are massive low sandy and intra-
formational conglomerate. The sand is usually fine but
in places seems coarse and the grit which was in a
quartzite. The dip is mainly to the E at 150-200° and
then maybe 150' or more of the dolomite towards the E.
Further north I looked at one drill, but saw no
forms. On some of the bedding surfaces the conglomerate
nature of the drill is plain. Usually the pieces are
small less than one inch long, but rarely there are
pieces up to several inches across. On other surfaces
I saw large blocks some nearly 2' across. These all
appear to be intraformational. This means that
the sea moved lots of the bottom and could be put
about and then deposition worked again.
About one P.M. got Dr Whitch loc. 2, Longly