Field Notebook: Vermont 1924, 1925
Page 15
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
September 23 1924 Tuesday. Started out west on the road to St Albans Bay and then south along the Rugg Brook road to the place that Rapmund and I last year thought was Gheston. The place is in the land of Martini Connors, and south of a crossroad into St Albans. At the corner of the St Albans Bay and Rugg Brook roads one yesterday saw the Milton with a little of the St Albans Middle Cambrian slate. On the west side of the Rugg Road all is Milton and not Mallett as I have it on last year's map. On the east side of Martini Connors land there is more Milton and the highest led is a dolomite conglomerate. Then Mallett dolomite thins up to 4 1/2 fathoms. The outcrop is a sandy dolomite. There are other dol. cong. down in the Milton to the west. On the higher and finer dol. cong. line, the St. Albans dark shale, one found slate for more than metres without getting fresh, and then near the Cor- ers south fence one came upon an exposure that gilded a number of trilobites. Among them are