Field Notebook: Vermont 1924, 1925
Page 45
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"20" [illegible]. In any event this is to the [illegible] Hillgate slate followed by [illegible] Granite or [illegible] Slate. What the age of the [illegible] slate is and the two levels are yet known. See the samples of the above forms. There is then a belt of our land of Champlain sands in which no rocks are shown. The the land rises into Milton dolomite and further our Colchester slate of my locality (10), but a few [illegible] here. Then looked at the little lentic near loc. (10) and near the famous town. It is a sort of Birdseye limestone. See the small samples, the slates around the lensit are very much crumpled. The fr[illegible] Colchester is underlain by the [illegible] bedded and banded sandy and flaggy dark blue micaceous slate. This design is seen in many places and it appears that Bricketts Parkers quay is in this flaggy Colchester. Then went southwest to a place marked red on my map and here in the flaggy Colchester are saw