Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Tuesday August 29-1933 Wea. SUN. SEPT. 26, 1909 Ther. Sheets break on here and in the road metal quarries, and cliffs and should be a good place to get fossils. I impresed (sic) Mr Howell and he said he would return to make a collection. At this place the Highgate is overlain by a small thin area of Corbin cmpl. (sic). As he made out they represe (sic) mainly the Corbin cmpl. Then auted (sic) N, about 1/2 miles and about 1-2 miles E to Park Benjamin. Due to E of road is a cleft of Highgate slate much crumpled, and in it close together lie 4 birkhorns ranging in size from 5' to one that is 40' across. In one of them Howell got some minute trilobites; it is a crystalline ls and not the usual type of birkerms ls. The place is marked on my map, there is more Highgate to west of the road, and probably all in the same forma- (ion) as far to the west N-S road which justly crosses the Parker. To west lies Mallett and Dinoralli. Next auted (sic) N, throug (sic) Benja Plains and then W, (cast howie to spot this on map fame) to see contact between Dinoralli and Mallett. Here the latter