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1-6 Figure 1.3. View of the field area, looking south-southwest. Left side of the picture shows the steep flank of the Green Mountain massif. The Vermont Valley and the Tinmouth Valley are separated by a ridge along a fault (Pine Hill Thrust) which brings up basement slices. The background shows the peaks of the mountains of the Taconic Allochthon, with Dorset Mountains truncating the Valley. The base of Dorset Mountain contains the large reservoir of highly valuable marble deposits. [Note: page reformatted from original; picture above, with lift-up overlay; below, without overlay

2-9 Figure 2.3. Outcrop picture of the Baker Brook Greenschist exposed at the north cliff in the South Wallingford marble quarry.

Figure 2.4. Rock sample of Baker Brook Greenschist showing pervasive and transposed layering and an anastomosing mylonitic foliation with weak feldspar megacrysts (fsp) in a quartz-sericite-chlorite-carbonate matrix. Deformed quartz vein (qtz) parallel to Sm. Sm = mylonitic foliation. (Rock from location F12, Baker Brook Falls Th.16) 2-10

2-18 Figure 2.7. Imperial Danby Quarry in Danby driven into the east flank of Dorset Mountain (photo from Vermont Marble Company, Proctor Vermont, 1983). The brownish dolomite at the top of the quarried section marks the base of the Bascom Formation; the high quality layers of the Columbian Marble, a member of the Shelburne Formation, can be distinguished by the steps at the quarry walls. The Columbian Marble is thickened here to a total of about 180 meters.

2-21 Figure 2.8. Picture of the type location for the Danby Formation in the stream bed of Mill Brook in Danby. It is a gray weathering, medium bedded dolomite. (looking west)

2-27 Figure 2.9. Outcrop picture of abundant, coarse well-rounded quartzite cobbles of the basal conglomerate of the Mendon Formation, exposed in the Clark Mountain basement slice brought up by the Pine Hill Thrust. This is the only exposure of the basal conglomerate overlying Precambrian basement in the field area. However this conglomerate is unusual compared with occurrences in the Green Mountains.

3-7 Figure 3.3. Picture of re-healed dolomitic fault breccia interpreted to be a remnant of the block-faulted normal fault breccia. The fabrics clearly show brecciated material in a dark dolomitic matrix. The appearance of this rock is however massive. A large outcrop of this rock is along the West Hill Road [F4] where the road passes a small bridge.

Figure 3.5. Picture is showing the complicated structure within the marbles and dolomites. Isoclinal folding, overturned locally to the cast. This outcrop exposes the thrust contact (east over west) of an inverted section of the shelf sequence over black phyllites, separated by the Baker Brook Greenschist. North face of South Wallingford marble quarry. 3-11

3-12 Figure 3.6. Picture of the south cliff in the South Wallingford marble quarry showing the strongly foliated mylonitic marble with asymmetrical isoclinal folds and tail-like structures sheared off in thrust direction (east-over-west). The darkest layer within the cliff is a dike. The width of the picture is about 5 m.

3-13 Figure 3.7. Outcrop picture of the vertical sharp thrust contact between the Blue Marble sequence and the Baker Brook greenschist of the mylonitic high strain zone in the South Wallingford marble quarry. Shear indicators suggest an east (marble) - over - west (greenschist) sense of shear. Pencil is 15 cm.

Figure 3.8. Thin section of mylonitic marble, containing calcite porphyroclasts in a very fine-grained calcite matrix, displaying truncation of different shear surfaces and asymmetrical pressure shadows. The "cross-bedding like" truncation is structural and can not be used to determine stratigraphic up. Sm=mylonitic foliation. Width of photo 5 mm. 3-15

Figure 3.9. Micro cracks in feldspar megacryst offsetting the twin lamellae. The feldspar megacryst shown in the picture is only a part of a 25 mm long micro clast showing consistent weak deformation and recrystallization in micro cracks. Consistent shear indicators show a clear east-over-west (top to the right) thrust sense of shear for the Baker Brook Thrust. Width of photo is 3 mm. Sm=mylonitic foliation. 3-17

Figure 3.10. Photo of typical top-to-west deformation features in mylonitic greenschist demonstrate thrust sense of shear for the Baker Brook Thrust. A: Sliced calcite grain showing clear offset. B: Feldspar megacryst with asymmetrical tail and antithetic offset along internal fractures. Sm = mylonitic foliation. Note also the sharp fault contact below the feldspar and the mylonitic matrix. Width of photo is 3 mm. 3-18

Figure 3.12. This roadcut 2 miles south of Wallingford along Route 7 shows repetition of beds by thrust-faulting (thrust slice I = thrust slice II). Thompson (1959) shows a complete section from the Monkton quartzite through the Winooski, Danby and Shelburne Formations in outcrop to the west of the road cut, which now is poor, and a continuous stratigraphic section through the units is highly interpretative. 3-23

3-24 Figure 3.13. This exposure is in the north wall in the Wallingford quarry. The strongly folded units of the Winooski and Monkton and Dunham Formations (from west to east) are exposed. The dark layers are suggested to be the base of faults, resulting in the repetition of carbonate beds.

Figure 3.15. Very common outcrop structure where thin layers (2-15 cm) of mylonitic greenschist, GS (T 1 ) are "interlayered" with dolomite and/or quartzite. The contact between dolomite and greenschist is interpreted as a fault contact. D 1 structures are clearly truncated and sliced by faults of the shelf duplex (D 2 ). Outcrop picture north of Danby. 3-29

3-42 Figure 3.19. Clean white kaolin clay with a piece of manganese oxide concretion found near the old mine shafts of the Kinney Kobble Manganese Mine at South Wallingford.