Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 129
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Percé-Basque, Monday, August 12-1929 It rained hard all night and up to 8 A.M. Did not get started until 10 A.M. By 11 A.M. it began clearing and the afternoon was fine and sunny. I determined to see what Drin (fading) called the transition from the Basque ss into the Bonaventure, and what Clarke in 1908 in the days of Logan and Ellis now all called Basque ss. We first began to examine the e.g.l. at Belle Anse on the shore of Mulhag, a In the distance it appeared as if the Bonaverture overlapped the Basque ss. A close examination showed all to be confirmation and with decided meeting. Thus [illegible] [illegible] It was all a very erose pettle and broken e.g.l. (pieces rounded) with interlaced irregular grooves of crasse's or mudiness. Redip is outwardly towards Mulhag. Next we went out to Point St. Peter opposite Plateau Island and found the same kind of e.g.l. but interlaced with red meeting and decided even redder ss. There are more prevalents less than farther over at Belle Anse. Here again the dip is not around towards the south (must be stone) [illegible] After we had lunch (must be done) [illegible] caters 2 1/2 miles W) About one drove to Chien Blame, and then down to the shore of Basque Bay near the Church. Here the Basque ss dip 15°-20° S and E. Towards Red Head to the north we noticed a sharp flexure within in the dip but after all it amounts to little. Towards the south the dip steepens and before arriving at Whale Head appears a small