Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wes. SAT. MARCH 20, 1909 Ther. Wednesday, Sep. 26 1928 Raining. Left Phillipsburg, Quebec late. Cleared up enough to do some work in the gorge of the Mininiquari at Highgate. Last years great flood cleaned out all of the loose material, and one now sees the entire succession down to the Milton dol. It appears to be an unbroken sequence. The Highgate sl (in places up to 1000' thick) includes the ls series in the base and goes down to about the great coal gme. However, the thin ls above this coal are of the character of the Mininiquari, and this may mean that there is here no break between it and the younger Highgate. To tell this one with Keith. The various intraformational coals in the Mininiquari can be seen to be of local origin. Beneath the thin laddled ls of the Mininingan come in the Hacket dolomite or with intraformational coals gmes and several gms of quartz jts. Above these Hacket sls are fairly perpendicular but below they become more and more leveled out in the