Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 71
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Highgate Center, Thursday Sep. 21 1932. Spent the morning in the bosom of the Mississipi River at Highgate Falls, a little east of the front locality and the rock dumps, is a vertical cliff as follows; The sec- tion goes up into growing trees. x (III) At low waters edge an intraformational conglomerate at least 4 feet thick. All that can be seen to order, but if cliff of rock dump. Yes, it penetrates all the thin layers. x Thin bedded dark blue li., 1/2" to 2" thick with some of thin dol. during intef. cong./3 to 8 inches thick). Meanwhile about 8 feet thick. but from root of rock dump. Zone (2), lowest found gone often. Zone of melted of intraformational conglomerate, the pieces of the limestone. Variable 18 to 30 inches Thin bedded li., as before, 6" to 3 feet. The two dol. come together at the east. x Zone of melted of intraform. cong. 2 to 4 feet. At thicker place chrys prisms have the from thin bedded li. are pulled of and made into the cong. Thin bedded li., as before with irregular thin gone dol. intref. cong. from 2 to 10 inches. The whole about 10 feet thick. the main part of gone if thin this way for July. Zone (3) Highest gone the red of chalk thin dol. 2 feet. One bed of intref. cong. 4 a flat pellets, li. below. Thin bedded li., as before, 2 to 3 feet The great intref. cong. with large boulders, 20-25' thick