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Perce, Quebec, August 9-1929, Friday
Rest at The Haven on end of the morning. Walked along the sea front trying to solve the geological structure. Haven't found it out.
It is plain that the Alpterus beds just carry the Perce away out into a fault of the Ont. Joli formation and seem initially so far or more hidden in the formation than my fault in the cliff facing Perce Road. Copper for some time here and down the gone from which they came; they are the youngest golf defined here at Low Oratu.
(Low Mountain Perce Massif)
It is also plain that the lower third of Cape Barre is of the Ont. Joli series and the very highest of this formation. I am not sure if it is then Taonurus but out of it Clarke got the third site with the fault folded planes. According all of the Ont. Joli beds can be seen on either side of the North Beach, i.e. at Cape Barre, the mount, and Mt. Joli.
The strike crattles once or low due to squeezing of the beds into one another.
certainly
The upper two thirds of Cape Barre in the Perce formation = Upper Ordovician. The low dip of Cape Barre appears to me to be due to rising on the north the country which lies to the west of the Prior Road, towards the sea or Malta; the dip quickly steepens and seems nearly vertical. As one goes north