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"so called boulders" lie in a limestone. I cannot see
why the formation is called a limestone. It is true
that it effervesces under hydrochloric acid, but the
amount of lime carbonate present is not 20%. This
rather muddy - sandstone cemented by lime.
Richardson says the pebbles are of diorite,
gneiss, porphyrite, quartzite and sericite schist.
Of these I saw three unbroken and those belong to the
formation and are not at all boulders or proper pebbles.
He says "in some parts the pebbles are small,
well sorted round, while the total conglomerate is
highly crumpled and folded". There is no evidence
that the pebbles are water worn. They are either
cementations or rolled pieces of larch into stratified
lith.
One of the "boulders" was like this:
The diorite pebbles maybe =
Gneiss sandstone. Diorite granite
on porphyrite.
Richardson's "limestone" is a formation of very thin-bedded
shales, sandstones every impure limestone. Any metamorphism
into into a foliated - twisted schist. The "pebbles," are
generally rolled in the foliation.