Field Notebook: Vermont 1924, 1925
Page 31
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13 Cambrian time, see the smell (Mr. has two graphs): Then Graptolite discovery just a new light in the Graptolite angle. It is or layer at the base of the Ord. to what the base of the High gate. [illegible] Bredledge appears to me to rest upon the high gate. Certainly Darwin no Upper Milton here. After lunch we went into the gorge of the Missis- guipi at Highgate Falls, and now we see that the Graptolite angle is also here, and follows in sequence and distinct break upon the then called Upper Milton and is followed by one then Bredledge Milton. Finally there is another large block dropped into the then called Milton this is near the Power House There is a little of distance of streets beyond the house. leads into the gorge. Still more of the Upper Milton in deep gullies appears to the upstream end of the Power House and then the Highgate plate commence. There is no real line in the deposition in this Mississippi Highgate series. We then went down stream to determine the base of the Upper Milton. I pointed out to Kirk