The Geology of Worcester Massachusetts

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other min- ^ n Edition to the minerals already mentioned, erais in this there may be found in this quarry iron pyrites in fine particles, in both the schist and the granite; the surface of one slab was covered with a thin coating of stilbite crystals. The indications are that this quarry will afford but few minerals, and will not compare in this respect with the quarry at Quinsigamond.
As the laminae of the Paxton schist of the quarry point nearly north and south, we may expect to find it exten
...ding in those di- rections ; and so we cross the fields to the south seeking for traces of it. We find it in outcrops north of the next road, Fowler street, leading from Tatnuck up the edge of the plateau to the Lynde Brook Reservoir. The same rock appears in numerous outcrops on the side hill south of this road. There the laminae strike nearly GEOLOGY OF WORCESTER. 135 north and south, deviating only five to ten degrees east of north, and dip forty degrees to the west.
As we follow Fowler street up the hill, near the Granite area top on tne east s i O p e we notice, on the south side south of r Fowier street, of the road, and in the road, a rock constituting a ledge, yet evidently not the schist which we are following.


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