Field Notebook: Vermont 1924, 1925

Vermont 1924 and 1925 doc. 126

doc. 126 Return to Professor Charles Shuckert Yale University New Haven Connecticut Sep. 1924. [7148] vt. 1924 [7149] vt 1925 p.32

Sunday September 21-1924 Left New Haven at 9.37 p.m. for St. Albans, Vermont to meet Dr. Keith and Dr. Prindle. This is my fifth trip to southern Vermont since 1921. I hope this time we are able to adjust the Colanus posture successin. Ride gets St. Albans 8/10 to morning morning. Monday Sep. 22-1924 Keith and Prindle at depot to meet me. Then talked over the stratigraphic issue of St. Albans, and at ten o'clock we are ½ mile of the Town about 2 miles to get started on a determined horizon and from it work up into the debatable Middle Cambrian.

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Sep 22-1974 About 2 miles west and half mile farther Below these and to the west are [illegible] marked, and west are log exposures of the Mallett sand dol. These just south of the Bellemontown - the same series as at Phillipsburg. I visited these last year with Raymond. He examined (Mallett) them on the south side of road about 1 ½ mile west of H. Atams. Here they are in the lower part of the Mallett, it has scattering angular pieces of intra- formational dol. There is considerable (maybe 10%) of rounded large grained sand that appears to be wind flown sand. There is a considerable thickness of Mallett here, but by no means so full the thickness given by Keith for the Mallett at its thickest. Then there is a slowly ascending [illegible] road and on the north side near the first houses there is a good ex- plosion of basal Philton dolomite. In character, it is almost identical with the Mallett. North of the road in the bushes one sees that the basal part of the Philton is a giant conglomerate, a dolomite glaze with rounded sand grains in which are frags (angular) of the Mallett dolomite and Gilchrist Dale in signs up to at least 40 feet down. It rests directly upon the Gilchrist, here in the upper

"Kutorfina" may occur here. Smith and I got the same thing on Aug. 12-1925 15- 10 5 quartzite 3½ g Smith Then follows a part of Hackle shale, probably the begining of the Middle Cambrian shale series. This is roofed over one to two W of first house in N side of St Alans Bay road. The Hackle shale is directly north of first home or rise to S of same road. I should locate this place on the G.S.O. map measuring to the clytl. in Adams and allowing about 15 degrees to get the full thickness for the St. Alans shale.

Sep. 22, 1924 (2) Further of the Clachantin are collected a number of Disusia festerata (comm), Hyolitha and some Aseur. thops. The whole of the Clachantin here cannot be by thick, probably at last not as much as 200 feet. This here a micaceous dark greenish sandy slate that breaks out in small lenticular pieces. Above the basal 15 feet of "Milton" conglomerate fol- lows one very bedded sandy grey dol. with an abundance of some soft smeele piece of conglomerate, similarity of the Clachantin. These weather out making shata, about 20 feet thick, that [illegible] roll like rusty clay, but it is all a conglomerate. On the road side one sees a zone of this bedded white quartzite about 4 feet thick followed by intraformational flat kettle conglomerate for 5 feet more. Then the rocks are concealed. In a short distance after one comes upon a fine erratic of St. Dronorlii granite. From here to the Adamas Pasture fence can make more than 1/8 mile [than at least 700 feet mine] to the way to the [illegible] Dragging cone conglomerate must be of Middle Cambrian slating before limit are made in rapid survey of the Adamas Pasture. Heretofre Keith held that the

(later called Mill River) This coal could be called the Adams Pasture coal, and is to be regarded as the base of the Highgate shale series. It has no Minisquari li. flat pieces, and should have no forms younger than the St. Albans shale. Another up-raise of it is to be seen near Presbidge. This Adams Pasture coal is also localised (see page 1a). I went on this field with Arnold on Aug 12 1925 This is not the Dranston Coal, but this one at the base of the shale may be further thickened, not now so fat. Highgate shale. It has no Minisquari slaty li. There is many a flat li pieces some riches by but mine have no forms. Out of this coal I will get a spinner Pundajicks tail and some other forms. The white quartzite with them Lugullas may come to the Elyth coal. Maybe a post-locus

Sep. 22 1974 [3] giant cryl parasite near the middle of the pasture in the [illegible] cryl. Therefore the shales in situ hereall are Highgate, and therefore are kegia. After lunch we examined the pasture with care and tried to find top fossils, and when a few more were seen, the very important one was found by Pride in the shales just beneath the [illegible] cryl parasite an Agrostium near pisiformis. Then I made the sketch in page [1a] so that I may talk over with him all the places he collected from. After eceiving the whole interlap Hallid on the sequence with Keith, and pointed out that the fossils gotten by him here beneath the cryl parasite are not Highgate, but Middle Cambrian. The question now arises what to name this shale - Milton or give it a new name = St. Albans. Above the [illegible] cryl parasite lies the Adam's Pasture, and north Legside Highgate shales, therefore the east end of the pasture becomes more and more troubled, but not lying as at Highgate Falls, - not to be examined.

Sep. 21 1924 Keith thinks the Middle Cambrian pinches out to the north. Clear the fusiliforms at Milton of the Highgate range is not in the Adams Pasture. This pinching out he thinks is due to overlap and not to faulting. The intervals of erosion between the different formations is usually of considerable time geologically. I don't if the St. Albans shale has half the thickness as at Rockliffe it has in Adams Pasture. It certainly is not present at Mr Highgate Falls. Therefore it has pinched out and probably before even in the Hungruford Brook area.

Was here again with B. Horwell on August 12-1925, Found 2 frog. of Paradoxides and other things, Horwell had made a half day here yesterday, and got some large smooth Agrostus, Cystid plate are common. There is a wide stretch here of low land, lots little of allin shale - St. Alfons and Highgate, This wide level track goes south several miles at least to the cross road joined our last year. In places the St. Alfons slate has long bands, but no linestros. One trilobite is out of this long material, The trull from material is out of deep clay cleared due blue slates. These slates are certainly over 100 foot thick.

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

Aug. 14-1920 went over the road coming Ray Brook onto Hornell but learned near the place of the brookton li. engl. See the map. Therefore there is here to the or. of the engl. St Albans up to the so far of Milton. To the E. of the engl. is diffcate all the way E. to the next engl. The question must be answered in their a heat between the Milton dol. and St.Albans shale. Or for how no evidence either way. Hornell tells me he got an Agrostus only the Milton or the Parkins Quarry loc, this front alone he looked into, Irealize Truth Ann Rep. should be carefully looked into over heter may have Milton tons mixed with the Lawn C.

Two globella of Paradoxides and a number of Ag- nostus, are there by now established the pre- sence of Middle Cambrian slate in place. Further east the land is low and we could see no further strata. I took away a few of slate having large crenated fossils. Mr S road to Ruff Brook In the afternoon morning on the same ^ but soon after getting on this Mr-S. Road went over on the Milton and soon came up on a cliff of the Olchester slate here very much twisted. Further west in (Mallett). Saw our fossils, although all of us looked for them. After going about 1 1/2 miles the Mallett crossed the road, and at the next south cross was the Olchester crossed it. It is well exposed on a cliff to the east of Ruff Brook, and although all of us searched long for fossils none were collected. Just east of these Olchester slates is a little of Milton dolomite, not half long than so far is shown, and it is related to the east by the St. Althons Middle C. slates. This greatly throws Milton Keith explains as due to stratigraphic over lap, the sea then coming in late.

Note that there is here no Minisquoi li. This engl. must again be the Ludlow Pasture one at the base of the Highgate shale series. Its extent is further.

These Middle Cambrian slates do not extend to the East far, and the next sharp rise in the road brings in to the south of the road a fine exposure of limestone and lime. It has at the base, only by the St. Altars slate a sandy dolomite about 6 feet thick that laterally passes into a fine bottle li, engl. Histon of iron from 15 to 20 foot of hardy limestone conglomerate, in which there thin flat limestone and shell lime. None of the pieces exceeds 3 feet across. It once got fossils out of it. Overlying this li. engl. comes in the Hylgate slate, here decidedly bandeled as at Bore Hill. I saw no fossils with. Just how thick it is now not determined. So far have seen no Scania slate. In all of the conglomerates of Normant nor one has seen pieces of the Monton or Birrosi, or the eastern Cheshire quartzite. Later on are a few pieces of Birrosi.

See these finds—very important. long piece of In a cyl. found in a piece of brinosti li. Then Ruth also found a piece, The brinosti is not far to the west, in the li. Cyl. above the Mid. E.

(8) September 24, 1924, Wednesday. Started north on Roadlidge to see the great trilobites and the conglomerate about it. Prindle soon had a large piece of li. out of the conglomerate that yielded a large lot of Miltom fossils like those described by Raymond. Keith also found of them some more howdies, each trilobite is wrapped separ- ately. This shows that they are not cast from milliform Milton, = Missouri quadr. li. Then Prindle found a place next to the great trilobites this when there was a bed of sandy limestone embedded in the fossil of the conglomerate. This bed about 3 inches thick functioned out in one direction and was cut off by tridite in another, the whole about 4 feet long. It had fossils and strike ones than one hour at it and got about a half dozen fine pieces of this site. It should date to the age of the conglomerate = Port Washgate = Raymondtown. We then went to slope exposures a short distance to the S.W. where there was another li. conglomerate about (very few say some). 10 feet thick where it was handeled about, and below it Prindle had a large Lipulella ad an smaller trilobites lead. I saw that these fossils where the same one got got yesterday on Martin Emmers land. After working

"8a" This should then good locality for Parareids fossils since the cleavage are folding are alike. Much later in her easily got at. August 12-1955. Dem have visited Dr. Struck, and he told away a lot of material among them two good flatelles of Parareids, All suggest hips Mid.C. I took several things a cast of Pos. and another big tailed trilite. All fels. refers to page (8). The di. cnglomite at the base of the Highgate is from str 10 foot there and is mainly of white hilsege ang. li. even as lutes in the L.C. The pieces are angular to sub-angular and range up to 8 feet long, but many below 2 feet. The paste is a creamy limy rusty weather fills. Here and there are pieces of 18" long of a very sandy dol., such as one sees in the Mallett. Coming there is no Oniller dol. though there is some not far to the W. There is not a piece here of the then reddish Missisquoi, nor did I see a trace of a fossils in any of the li. This engl. runs h-5. for 70 yards; the more for 60 yards when then in one engl. for 15 yards. Else where the Highgate shale into directly on the St. Albans shale. There can be no doubt that this is a basal cenglomite.

here a kmr we gtr a numbr of tilitit, and finally got a fair Paradoxide platella. Had come upon other fragmnts of the same tilinite. Therefore the slate in St Albans = Middle Cambria. Farther over than about so fts of Milton drlomite & sandy del, with one quartzite bed. Beneath the Milton is foggy sandy slate in layered str. Some of it in current ruffled. Keith says it is unmistakably Caledonian. In the afternoon went north to Wheels Corners and then over a further hundred fts, looked north and west of the Graniton conglomerate. Beneath it there is a well exposed series of well bandul dark blue High- gate slate. Prindle got five sheets of Ptychoaspis and that was all the fossils we saw in it. These were fairly common. Beneath these banded slates are other dark slates, not so fine grained but we saw no fossils in it, or in them here a linstone conglomerate to separate the two masses of slate. The thickness here is just half one-third that seen further south.

10 Evidently I am something out to the north. Farther west was a small thickness of sandy dolomite, followed down grade by a zone (?) of white quartzite, and still lower a gneis (?) (furn or) of dolomite conglomerate. This is undoubtedly the Oniltn. The whole is less than 35 feet thick. Still farther west and at once beneath the Oniltn came in the Cretaceous sandy and lign slates. Saw few fragments of trilobites but none were determinable. One fragment may have been desmes of Allmylles. The first place visited this afternoon was about 1/3 mile N.W. in Onantm, - Shipgate. Here we saw what appear the lower 30 feet of Oniltn. Outcrop was the clt. conglomerate with blocks of rolite, and beneath with in great thickness of smelly white limestone. An litter side there was no shale to be seen in the farm lands. The morning was very productive, but the afternoon was negative as far as fossils are concerned.

Minisquoi One of the li. of this Dravant emyl is made up of the then redded Mf. Milton. Probably 3/4 of it, and co- mented by a sandy dolomite. Some of the emyl has foreign rocks, all are from the Orellett up to the Up. Millin. The large blocks of "Shelburne" are metamorphosed into mattic but show no flow structure. Or Shelburne is known north of the Skinoeli over, and yet it is common in all of the Dravant emylments. It must have been place here at the time of the Dravant deposition. But are those Shelburne li., which we also meets in the emyl, at the base of the Bridgegate.

September 25 - 1924 Thursday. Started in at the Downton enl[eromente] localiz[ion], 11/3 miles, 3/4 mile south of Broadge. First examined the feet block of Lower Cambrian white li. It is of the same li as the great block of Broadge. Shows much flow structure and the moring ature and the anormy. dolomite fragmets. Asked Prindle when this meta- orphism took place and after looking over the block he said before the time of Siltural in the Downton enl[eromente]. Everyone who has seen these masses comes to the conclusion, and yet no one knows of a Cambrian orogenic time. One is led to to this con- clusion because of the great metamorphism of the block, and another one close by with the same flow structure, contracted with the other li blocks more are seen there flow structure and none are drawn out. Neither knowing if from similar li blocks in the Clekstin[er] fault N.W., two of which have also been. How these great blocks got into the downton enl[eromente] is not known, unless they slide down hill into position, or fell from sea cliff. The

(Mississuri linsters St. Alfons slate

alright now these days rocks could have gotten where they are moved by ice action. In this connection, we see not the slight evidence of ice action, nor strange rocks off shore if the immediate formations. The great flood of L. C. mantle rests very irregu- laf upon the Upper Millton Then dedded lie. Priddle 20m had a ledge with fossils and finally we all concluded that those beds are in place and that upon it rest the great Flood. I then broke area for near the towns and gathered a number of fossils, among which Agnostus is most conspicuous. All reminded me of the middle fossil zone of the Upper Millton, and this then led to the view that the U. Millton is here in place. Before I told Keith then d he was holding the beds to be the paste filling in the space underneath the great Flood. The shale beneath those Upper Millton li. and owing the great flood are therefore Middle Cambria. There is a great width of those slate terminated to the west by the then basal part of the Lower Millton. Priddle and Keith collected a few fossils and when down there concluded they were of On.

August 12-1925 It may be that this engl, is there in the upper Milton = Missouri seen at High Falls gage. As it does then fussy li. pieces it shows that some of the Lower Missisouri must have been captured to get into this englment. Missisouri limestone

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

The Milton Road chyle is unknown in any of the other dilmites, therefore it has chemogenetic value. Here in the page one sees about 200 feet of the true Milton, and then all root information are at an end. Orlin amplmate.

(14) the place for the current Milltn fauna collected he par Ountur was ont one. Keith looked at the Miltin districts tells them then redded basal Upper Miltm limestone, and since they had Haddell Check said that they are of the true Milltm. It is a series of intrformational flat pettle sandy conglomerates. If this is true then we have here a division, formative contact of the Lower or true Millim followed out by the M.C. slate, but by the Upper Miltm Then Redded limestone series. The strata of the Lown Milltm is 30 degrees differ from that of the Upper Drielm. I proposed to call the Upper Miltm, the Missiguri limestone. The Middle Cambria slate or they be called the St. Albans slate. The Trenton conglomerate name will be retained as a member of the Mississouri. The Carlin Ledge conglomerate at the base of the Georgia one will once the Carlin conglomerate.

See the detailed measured section made the gen otype and fit into this one.

(5) My lowest fossil zone in the Mississouri makes, the base of this formation, it is a thin bedded li. grey, the li. separated by threads of clay to black shale, about 8 to 10 feet thick. Over it lies 6 to 8 ft. of a very good quartzite. Higher still is a rounded grey of considerable width, and then another quartzite of 4 feet in once thickness. Then another rounded grey, followed by 3 to 4 feet of dolomite, then the black shale zone, on which lies the main mass of thin bedded li. and grey of intraformational flat bottom sandy dolomites, etc up to the top of the Missour-i quartz limestone. We then went to the little quarry in the Orlehoton road metal diggings about 1/2 mile N.W. of Hillsdale Centr. Much quarrying has been done since last gear and we see the strata now better than ever. Below are exposed about 6 feet of laminated black sandy slate and then beds of sandstone, then about 4 feet of sandy dolomite, followed upwards by about 6 feet of thin bedded sandstone and some

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slate that have the Linnarsonia faecica and Acritheli gotten in previous trips, Hydra still the follows the true Milton. In this general re- gion Keith holds that the Milton is not far from 8 or far thick, and that the Mallett has a like thickness. This is a remarkable similarity why the Milton arises to the south of Redbridge, there is from 30 to 20 feet of Milton followed by some dendules of far of St. Alban's slate. We then entered about four miles to the northwest through lots of Mallett to the Jave monument, a large boulder of obsolite. It is an erratic for Canada and is smoothed almost to polish by the glacial. It is one of the most faulted masses I have ever seen and must have taken place under eroding pressure, and then are recremental. It is one of the most of monuments at my appropriate for the places. The entered O.W and found large guanis in the marble of the early Beedmantown. The same one seen at Phillipstown.

Chazy near Hiff gate Hmrip

(17) Then D.E. about 1 1/2 miles where Beelmont, Glocester and Chazey are all near together. Much faulty here. The Chazey is very thick bedded, and one of them is made up of Steplechetus. Have two pieces. It was not too dark to see fossils.

It may be that this Chagz Hroll was not in the copy, but Leith and Private Smith had it was, Smith looked all around for another roll with those prints but found none. Finally concluded that this Chagz were not in place.

September 26 1934 Friday. Started north on Highgate road to next left land road north of Skeels Corners going west. At the corners is [illegible] conglomerate, and most of it is the orell banded Highgate slate going down to the thin dolomite layers seen in the Mississipi gorge. These make a high eroding faciy cliff here. In these slates, four fragmets of the Lingulella seen at Highgate Centu, and fragmets of unecogingate trilobites. To the west is far land without exposures, and then appears cuteriges of Orilton dolomite with intraformational conglomerates. The Orilton terminates below in a giant conglomerate that to the south is chiefly made up of dolomite fragmets and to the north of several kinds of limestone and [illegible]. Some of these [illegible] are up to 6 feet across. In one of the blocks to my great surprise I got Bryozoa and probably Strophichetes showing that the limestone is probably of Chazy age. The limestone looks like the Chazy Sea gastropod.

19 Below this conglomerate is soft, dark to black slate in which our fossils were seen, but they dare the look of Middle Cambrian. Then a space without exposure, followed by an interl of a white limestone interpreted perhaps as a lentic in the Ordovician. It looks much like the Redledge one, but does not share its flur structure and pieces of dolomite, although it weather in places like dolomite. The li. grade into dif. Reid says the hole outside of the overts is 300 ft long by 100 ft wide, while another one wholly in the overts is 150 by 120 ft across. In the hole just a few feet out of the trees Prindle called my attention to cylindrical crystalline things that I could not make out. Later when I found the Byssus in the conglomerate it appeared that these also may be byssus more completely metamorphosed. If or these lentic are also about Chazy in age, and the underlying conglomerate is still younger, Reid sees structures here that lead him to think them as just faults connected with the structure.

Darren Olenellus lead at lrc. (10)

"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

many parent of trilobite among them poor material of Agolitts, Olenellus in Orissacis, and half are in two other trilobites. This fluffy material is near shre deposits and is replete with mica. Before getting to these fluffy deposits are jamed one (Milton dolomite, Milton conglomerate up to 40 or more. Little faults makes the section repeat itself. In the afternoon went to Orange's Ledge south of St Albans to see what Keith interpreted as Cryptogorn. It looks or, Took along some samples. Associated are things that again look like Bryozoa. At the extreme south end of this ledge Keith got before Longjulella and trilobites. I took away several pieces that appear to have trilobites. To the north of the ledge one Mr josh Hoad Shales. Looked for fossils but got none. Long from Raymond thought he could find graptolites here. Maybe! Farther south and some to the east of Orange ledge is another similar conglomerate. It strikes

All the Engl. on Bragelide southward are very small drawn out and solitary, so that I am ful that the metamorphism of Bragelide was occur at the same time as there Engl. In other words when the whole area were transformed into this,

southward to the next E-W road, in this series of expressions for 58 miles there are many large lumps of white shellstone marble and the regulative small pieces of the Minisguri li. These crystals termin in the rock above the black shale with others, large small pieces of limestone, and then the regulative granitic like crystal bound together by sandy dolomite. In this line of crystals there are several large lumps of marble up to 60 or more feet long. Seeing so many I now feel we must have to call these lenticles formed- Flacc. In one place then in a thick series (about 30 ft) of a coarse grained white quartzite, it is the semi-rounded large grained sand seen in the foots of the sandy dol of the crystal. In places beneath these crystals is a black soft shale, but farther north there is greenish sandy slate. Age unknown. Even if one say that the largest lumps are lentils, still the crystals have large lumps dumped into the mass along with the fall of Minisguri then redded limestone. Most of these lumps look like shellturn,

September 27 - 1934 Saturday. Shipped a 62 pound trip by rail to her Huron, paid $1.32 At 8 A.M. we are off to the Inman conglomerate to the crest of Georgia Center. Collected from north the dawn pieces of the Minnioguri limestone. These engl. are other Daleott, in his 10,000 feet of Lower Cambrian section from Parkes Quarry just Georgia Center, called a limestone lenticel. See the forms. While I collected Keith walked out early along the strike to the next north road where we met him with the car. It was along this road through Georgia center to the Vermont Central R.R. that Daleott meas- ued his section. When we met Keith he had de- termined that the rocks lie in a very flat anticline the strata dipping to the crest. Where we met Keith we got on the Inman conglomerate north of the road and then followed across the strike many hundreds of feet (1000) to the car. It here lies at a low angle and in shallow undulations, being underlain by the high- grade banded slates. Here occurring the Gritlin

comes to the surface, either rising in sharp local folds or is pushed through the shifgate into the general level of the Devonian conglomerate. The Milton here is the usual sandy clc with small hard chert, and is often with intraformational conglomerates or is actually broken up into a dilomite sand. from there onse. Evidently to the west to Parker Quarry Brown's or Middle Cambrian. To the east of the Devonian conglomerate are other folded plates, and these go to the carly Georgia Center. Their age is unknown. For the structure of this region see the appended sheet. Bralert in this area completely mistrusts the schis- tosity for bedding. Everywhere in the shifgate the bedding is scarce seen because of the decided folding. As for his faults and repetition of the sections he is mistaken because of the assumed great thickness, his limestone level that he calls an intrafor. continental conglomerate is our Devonian overlying conglomerate, Bralert completely missed the structural relations, and through the stratigraphic

Are the two nice slabs of granite angle, I have taken for the Peabody Museum Exhibition series. Keith is not so certain about this as I thought he was.

sequence. The Incauth coylo on the Georgia Center road is the peatlar rock mass to be seen anywhere. Everywhere the coyent is a sandy dol, and in places where the cipatters are absent there are strata of sandy dol. But one is apt to mistake for the Driltm sticking through the Higgate. This in places is un- doubtedly the case, but in several places one could trace the li. coylo family into solid reddish sandy dolomite. Part of one than 3/4 of the Incauth is made up of the Thin Reddedl Ordovis- guri, along with parts face signs of the white skeltonic marbles. Saw me Hrokl 15'x5'x 3 fot thick. Another Hrokl was 18'x 5'fat. Another Hrokl about 10 fot airon looked exactly like the Prolledge Hrokl having flow structure around chapped dolomite. It is now clear that here at least the Incauth precedes the Higgate and the Driltm. These have genuine formations. What the age of the slates above the coylo is not yet determined.

Early Scotia about time only occurs Pre-Cambrian schist and metamorphous diorite, then are of the Portuogrie. It was 1.30 when we left Scotia Centre. Then on tried through Milton (due along the road occurs Cheshire quartzite), Enser Junction, and then along the valley of the Kinnosaki through the Green Dits north of the Carnels it came to Mont. Pelin. All the rocks in the Green Dits are highly metamorphous Portuogrie. Then on to Barre, the town of greatest granite quarries and granite mills. Other granite make the heart or core of the Green Dits through by car crosses the Kidder Dits. The higher lie to the cross of the granite axis. Stayed one night at the good Barne Hotel at Barne,

(27) Sep. 28-1924 Sunday Left Barre, VT at 9 A.M! The light gray granite here is of Post-Ordovician age since it cuts known Ordovician strata. At 2 miles S.E. of Barre are std. to look at the high metamorphosed slates that have furnished Richards on peptolites. It is favored material or common in slates. At about 3 miles S.E. of Barre we see one of the thicker piles of boulder clay anywhere, it is at least 100 feet thick down to the streambed. Keith tells me that the area of the Green and White Mts is a thrice elevated foreplain, uplifted during the Cengric. Our route yesterday was up of the Drimoorsti and today down the Pratt River. Came out into the Connecticut Valley north of Fairlee where we had lunch. Crossed over the Connecticut at Hammon G. Hampshire. Then things Hemmiller At 5:30 we left Prindle's white summer home at Petersboro, and thence into Greenfield where Dan staying with the Keiths.

The Borne graits, White Cats and Memphis grt are wane pit. if the same age = Late Deronia.

Sep. 29 - 1944. Monday. With the Keitts and visiting. Sep. 30 - 1944. Tuesday, To-day Dr. Keitt is to celebrate his 60th birthday. The day is a navy one. In the afternoon Mrs Keitt is baking a cake and mulling four quarts of liquor for a party this evening with the Bogle's and the Hoffman's. In the morning Keith drove around in the car to pull together all the recessaries for the evening. Oct 1 - 1944. Wednesday. A quiet day. Keith tells me that the Barne granite cuts below Ordovician metamorphosized strata. These same granite, in the Lakes Memphremagog area cut out metamorphose Middle Devonian strata. Thus for these granites are just Middle Devonia, The Pennsylvania strata of western Maine.

correct with the datings of [illegible], Maine, all are therefore of the same age. These strata in western Maine are cubal metamorphosed by granites that were of Post Pennsylvanian time. Then, there were no known Carls, strata across southern Maine until about St. John's River B. The "Late Devon" plant beds of Perry Maine and in are probably of [illegible] time. The strata on either side of the Green Mounts have the schistosity dip through the Mounts, towards the east on the Lake Champlain side, and towards the west on the Connecticut Valley side. The Leyden schists of supposed Devonian time go north from Bennington to Littleton N.H. Hampshire. They are also at Lake Memphremagog.

30 Oct 2, 1924. Thursday. A fine day and nothing to do but talk. The autumn colors are now beginning to show in masses. The reds are one brilliant deep scarlet at her Haven. At 3.45 I leave Greenfield at the Leiths. On the way the train delayed and instead of getting to Boston at 6.10 it is near 7 P.M! Had a cab take me to the Lennox Hotel. Oct. 3, 1924. Friday At 9.30 called on Raymond and talked Vermont until 1.30. At 4.16 I am off for her Haven. Raymond had firmly concluded that is no Middle Cambric in Vermont, and of course was greatly surprised that I should have gotten the Paradoxists to the Seal M. of the Adams Pasture. After explaining the whole situation,

31 To him Raymond is nor satisfied with the succession and the correlations. Raymond thinks the Chelton might go under into the Chelton since he regarded the delimits with Alwicks above the Chelton as if Milton age. When I told him that the Chelton has beds of delimits, he had no objection in making the Milton Middle E, because dipping shows a crossing interval between the Chelton and the Milton. The Incomer confirms he thinks one may have been made at more base, and certain transportation during times of movement of the sea bottom. Such good books as Archidge he thinks might be reefs of Herat type the opinion of Herat type the opinion [illegible] in straits with strong currents. Raymond agrees that there was nor transportation of the material. Otherwise I do not see that his they will hold. Raymond appears to have learned little in the Delbicks and sees no problems worth talking. Had a good time and saw cornet county but little or knowledge that ones near.

New Haven Tuesday, August 11 - 1925 Started in St. Albans at 10.37 (our time). Will arrive to [illegible] on morning at 7 A.M. With Honnell, B.F. Wednesday Aug 12 - 1925 Worked all morning in the St. Albans shale south of Rockledge. In the afternoon talked over in the field the Adams Pasture succession, and then the Comus farm Middle C. Thursday August 13 - 1925 First visited the Branch cogs. L.C. 11. If the great fall sets on Missouri, then the shale below must be St. Albans Middle C. In this case there must be break below the Missouri and then in no Milton here but far to the east with low Milton. If the limestone below the great fall [illegible] are not Missouri than the shale must be Highgate, our usual interpretation. See logs 11 - 14. Then looked over the page at Highgate Falls and collected much Missouri for Honnell.

7149 32 In the afternoon visited all the places to the N.N. of Highgate Cemetery, and then retraced our steps and went south to find out going road north of St. Helles Corner. Collected Crickshaw froms at line 10. It rained some ?? and me during the day and now at 4 P.M. it is extremely damp hard and we had to wait. St. Albans Aug. 14-1925- Started over on the St. Albans Bay road and then I, passed Cunners Place and to the corner of the Ruff Gate. Here we located the Millim and going E. than the St. Alban's date, Ancient Anglo, Highgate date of the easternmost lie empl. Seems to dip at a low angle 10 to 15 degrees Then went south to John's No. 7 and went half-way on this road. On the north side of road in Highgate Shale Bay a quartzite local bed about 3 feet thick. Then further over, just beyond where some large lentils (li.) [illegible] (on map). Further we on south side of road to the one of a farm saw 5 lenticles of li. close together lying in shale. They look like L.O. lenticles but appear to be in St. Albans shale. Are in 20 foot seams and is exactly

"Poor structure with small blocks of dirt. Like the great block at Roulledge near Lowell Mass Hornell told sick and one did not protest in the afternoon. The day is dark and the ground is wet from yesterday. Saturday Aug 15-1925. Left St. Albans at 8.30 via a Bus Line to Burlington, where we arrived at 10.30. Then visited the Univ. of Vermont and the Museum. Have a lot of material, geological, ethnographic and palaeontic, but the arrangement is poor; the only merit in the geologic. Saw the Olnellus slabs, a lining sandy slab with the print in high relief = casts. All are weathered and otherwise eroded. The rocks has not suffered from erosion. All as far as Donald saw had any Olnellus heads and other fragments. He held more than 1/2 miles away. In the late afternoon went by trolley to Derby. Kilom about one mile east of Dinoradi. Here the squarquang expression about so feet of white um.

= Shelburne marble Clouded grey soft marble, that all dips east at about 25 degrees. The manager told me it runs between 90 and 96 percent carbonate of lime, about 3-1/4% free magnesium carbonate. One bed about 3 feet thick was picked in sand with the grains all rounded ad large, a coarsest grain 1/16 not in diameter. Keith says it rules Milton for the actual contact below out-crop. It's not likely the hill- top which is Bellmantown, from sounding of the Shelburne is not the same marble that constitutes the lower part of the Bellmantown seen at Phillips- hury. Saw no fossils, but the Manager said Phillips had gotten some. He also said there is a ridge group of dolomites. I saw some dull fractured grains. And that there were the Shelburne for certain that none of it occurs in the Trenton carbonate. Probably all of these "Shelburne" Hicks are lenticles only of the Caledonian. Stopping at the Remount Hotel.

Sunday Aug ust 16 1920 Started on a steamer trip south through Lake Champlain and Lake George to Albany. Darn day, great crowds and less pleasure. Hardly can't while tops off seeing when the mit is out. Left Albany at 7.10 P.M. and wandered around among the hotels to find a room. Finally stayed in a Turkish Bath place = Bevons. Monday Aug 17-1920- Darn Sultry day and as there is an ex- cursion down the Hudson concluded to take the team to New York. Left Albany at 8.20 A.M.

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