Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wea. MON. FEB. 8, 1909 Ther. Sep. 13-1924 Saturday. In the morning went to the Onalaska Salt Mine in the Brindora formation. There along the shale is seen a fine outcrop of the Picton formation in the Lismore. The lower one was folded and returned greatly and eroded before the Picton crop, and as now laid down on the irregular surface. Beneath the Lismore in the window of which we saw a little gypsum and dolomite. Near by in the Salt Mine beneath the drift. Now think its salt or some thaws -- they speak of two hundred feet. This Lismore has many gneiss of Calida crop. In these gneiss taken off to the pressure of Cordate Tops. The outer layer is eroded and the inner part is replaced with lime preserving some of the structure. In the Picton of Onalaska Point there are three beds of li, widely separated. They range from one to three feet thick, and one of peculiar hue close and irregular deposition, a lumps out of deposition. Beneath them and especially one of them