Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 20
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The Chilton is terminated by the Chilton conglomerate and opposite the Electric Power House in the north bank of the Mississippi one can see the erodics in it that must be said 7 feet lay. These are the largest boulders or far seen in the Chilton conglomerate. I was inclined to call it the Drantan conglomerate but Keith says it is "des Chilton conglomerate." In this conglomerate the paste is dolomite and without the rounded sand gains and the marble like white limestones, while the Drantan conglomerate has in the dolomite paste a great abundance of rounded sand grains. There ought to more said about the Chilton bed. Then went south to the big white limestone exposure in the Drantan conglomerate. This is on the Paddock farm of Doctor Janisen of N.Y. This big mass of Kellstone is certainly 135 by 110 foot and probably 10 feet thick. It may actually be 170 x 110 x 10 as Keith thinks. This room clear lies upon the Highgate muddy slate and all around its northern, eastern are certain outcrops can see the Drantan conglomerate wedging into it. In some places it is the limestone conglomerate but north after it is the Georgia clay slate with