Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 36
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Dark laminated sandy drl. 15' The great over thrust plane here distorts the sequence Crnyle drl. The north thrust sheet Continued downward. The above succession Laminated drl. Dip north Highgate Formation. Dark Blue slate 25' to cut off by over thrust. Dip of this slate is east. Dark-Blue thin reddled drl, traceited 12' Laminated drl. weathers gellar 10" Black slate and thin reddled li. 5' Dark. Blue harded slate with tom blocks of yellow weathery drl. The area is greatly squceeded only shape or an accurate estimate can be given. The iron jars is fairly regular but where the slate is fearfully oqueued, Reid estimates the thickness at about 175' The rest of the section is better studied down stream. Section up stream from most recently ex- plored eastward to the hardul slates. Milton formation. The part seen is 350' thick. Reid estimates total thickness of Milton as 800'