Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 17
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"not look like comminuted trilobite tests. Neither would some of this just above the Highgate slate and at about 12 inches where the trace for comminuted trilobite fragments, be the three pieces. This then proves that the conglomerate was deposited in the sea. It is a place of this kind that he had seen for the Ordovician cephalopods and brachiopods. Then went about one mile further north to the The Rosedip locality large Helleterre marble bed name, learned little that was new. It is undain as well as undlain by slate. Below is the Highgate Above, the shales form tremble from limestone conglomerate. In the Highgate shales we see very rarely a piece of limestone. One piece about 6 inches long and 1 1/4 thick stood vertically in the slate. These look as if dropped by ice-bugs into the muddy bottoms over the slate. North of St Albans the Bramton conglomerates show more than elsewhere signs of infilling dolomite with much round grain sand. In all of the Cambrian other sand is present it is of this round grain kind. It partly is of early Lower Cambrian making, and it is thus once that furnishes it for later deposits. It has no climatic significance except in the Lower Cambrian, and one does it in a question if it is out of Pattergne origin.