Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wea. Sun. Jan. 31, 1909 Ther. but fine exposure showing the darker upper Horton overlapping the lighter lower Knopfclant, then the contacts appear to be at right angles, but we think it is not quite or still the angular un- ciformity is very great. The lithology of the formations is very much alike. About 10 feet above the contact appears the first basaltic lava flow, about 60 feet thick. It has many zones of conglomerates. Then follow one mile and 35. Followed by the second flow about 120 feet thick. Then there are two or more faults where this second flow is repeated on the coast and the section goes on again to the W. I soon follows the third flow in two flows separated by a thin zone of trap breccia and some shale. It is about 45 feet thick. The upper Horton more than the Knopfclant in at times reflect with calciche zones, and calc drop imprints are not rare. This above maroon red shale - [illegible] sand, Above the lava flows the [illegible], are many emyl. grs, the pebbles are angular of size easily up to 6" many of Red. quartzites and some del. breccia.