Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 42
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P. M. when he went for a car license and because if technically we cannot get the permit until bednesday. He have therefore decided not to return to the Burlington again to see in detail the Williston limestone. The Williston limestone is exposed at many places along the west side of the Hines- bury road from 4-5 miles D.E. of Burlington to near Winchester. Keith describes it as a thin bedded limestone, but what I saw of it, it's a massive bedded grey limestone much chamed out and not schistose at one or km marked. It creates nor a peculiar sort kind of clast (in it a chest), there are zones of thin dolomite as these are usually dragged out and broken in the limestone mass. There are also crystalline granular limestone grains that originally some ore mass of fossil fragments, now all ground thump crystallized or recrystallized. The Williston limestone remains much of the large boulders seen in the Winchester conglomerate and especially at Rockbridge or the Coben Ridge. Keith says the full text that he knows of is limestone in the one at Brandon. It's not up