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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