View looking south in a depleted pit 3 miles north of the Vermont State Capitol. About 3.6 feet of poorly sorted pebble gravel rest disconformably upon 5.3 feet of interbedded fine sand and fine pebble gravel. On the right, layers are flat at the bottom and dip 15 degrees east just below the contact with the overlying pebble gravel. The latter is interpreted to be a debris-flow deposit formed in association with a large flood. The diamicton is interpreted to be a mudflow deposit on an alluvial fan.
Location is the same as the pit above.
An exposure with two feet of orange-brown pebble gravel resting directly on six feet of varved silt and clay was observed in a temporary excavation just to the left of this photo in June 1998. The site is 0.18 mile N65W of the Doty School. The Elm Street rock slide in Montpelier. For more information on glaciers and glacial deposits, please visit All About Glaciers , Pleistocene Glaciation , Geology of the Connecticut River valley , and The Charlotte Whale Page .