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In posers Ponneaticit, a mile north of the Lime Roc k 
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-of coarse garnetiferous, staurolitic mica schist; the two rock 
si As do 
are nearly horizontal in position. pao are easy, I may a 
that I have been up t Seat and over the t 
Here is stratification: beyond question. st as the same 
limestone continues far northward Sond cae without inter- 
ruption, and the same schist makes or caps ridges through the 
limestone area as far as it pe it is re stratification as far as 
these rocks go. To pressure are owing the flexures and other 
mechanical effects, and to friction from displacement and the 
attending pressure che "erystalization, as has long been recog- 
nized, and n 1othing e else 
occur interstratified, lying in nearly horizontal beds and in bold 
flexures, as parallel with one another as the boards in a pile, 
Some of the boast bi is aconglomerate. The same racks extend 
wit 
All this iboks like stratification, and stratification of great 
wide-spread formations, not as the bedding effects of pressure on 
rocks within “tight” or confined limits. "No appeal to the com- 
pression of a region of dikes and veins accounts for any one 
ce of the r 
6.) In the sowie Rutland, Sudbury, Whiting, Middlebury 
aud others, in central Vermont, "the crystalline limestone, which 
y wage! continuation, of that of Berkshire, and is 
accompanied by, t same quartzy te and mica schist, contains 
fossils ; and, in Ney belt of West Rutland valley, fossil corals, 
crinoids and shells of mollusks oceur in some of the layers, while 
others afford some of the best of: Vermont marble and contain its 
largest marble quarries. The mica schist on the west side and 
the | black slate on the east of the West Rutland limestone are 
conformable with it in bedding. In central Vermout, moreover, 
the quartzyte adjoining the limestone region has afforded fossils. 
Here is decided siratifination of beds of sedimentary origin— 
eds of fossiliferous limestone (now crystalline), of quartzyte or 
Sandstone and of mica schist—as true stratification as in. any 
Tegion of stratified rocks over New York and the States west. 
some Pennsylvania valleys numerous iron ore beds 
sar or brow n ae Neth occur In the limestone of what the 
situat ed for the most Cas near the saube of the limestone (a 
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