Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Sunday Sep. 23 - 1928 Wea. TUES. MARCH 2, 1909 Ther. Mississippi for orientation are the then bedded is beneath the Highgate Shales down to the heavy bedded Milton dolomite. This change is due to one now seeing the thin beds call the arey down to the Milton. In the lower part of than joints of thick bedded local quartz its. The Milton dist. in must be added to the Lower C. Therefore at Highgate gorge all the Mid. C, and mostly the Upper C is out. In fact I am not certain how any Up. C. here at all. All maybe Ozarkian. Near the Canadian border the Mid. Ord. comes south for several miles between the Mississippi and the Sciota. It is here in the Mid. Ord. that Keith found and I collected the large fragmentary trilobites that resemble those over the younger than Georgia. It pinches out to the south in about 2 to 4 miles, and swells out as a part of series to the north about Mystic, and to the north. Later turned out to be wrong