Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 46
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Now that are here the [Brilliston] charge the [illegible] to Middlebury Li. since the formation is well developed other this town which is 16 miles with of Brandon. Only in the Brilliston comes in the Beckman turn dol. and li. Near the base are some very fine conodonts, one great long fat thick. One thick bed of dol. matters a pure yellow ele- ment that look is a gray like algae and has therefore been called [illegible] dolomite. To the east of the Brilliston comes in the shellstone dol. Farther just a weathering pink-yellowish dol. That is the equivalent of the Old Chester. But further out the Rutland marble that is the equivalent of the Challet dol. and the Drinmoli marble. Belmar is a great thickness of the white Cheshire quartzite 800 to 1000+ fat thick. One marvels to see how the Brilliston limestone becomes ochiostre and is drawn out and about the dolomites. The dolomite beds do not have nor become schistose but crack and heal up into