Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
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August 12 continue and sand to the same green argillic sands and never to hematite, as in the Bonaventure. The ss on their surfaces include many small falls and small pebbles, and sometimes one sees clear overstream agate. evidence of growth in one direction; perhaps all is of the freshwatery side of a delta - activity of the geomorphology. Out of this engl we collected a poor shellfish (appears to be an Ostracod), and in another ls are small forms, not looks like a Pleistocene. forms. Many pebbles are of a bright-white crystalline ls, but most of the pieces are of a light grey ls, and some are crinoidal. Rarely some quartz paths and rarely a granite pebble. All found together by arkose a coarse quartz sand. The pebbles are nearly all well-rounded. This material could not have been rolled far. Creates the impres- sion that there was a delta from a mountain area formed out into at sea not far until, the present Bay de Chaleurs. Onkake did one see a true Bonaventure in which the current is a hematite, and all the pebbles and fragments attain and angularity to large sizes, seen in the Bonaventure. ocean in the Bonaventure After Belle Anne Crispen saw some jasper pebbles. Therefore The same sands sometimes have some red grains but these are more or brilliant red as in the Bonaventure. More of the red coloring of the lower ss relate to oxid work from above or due to weathering. from chim Blanche to Point St. Peter. All along one came up in the section, and where the ferric engl. comes in, Mind folding calls it Bonaventure, but unfortunately to see darkness under all these basse ss engl. Put up again at the Baker Hotel, but roomed in Captain on him my first trip down east clearly. Bakerham's Old Red Sandstone home, the same grand home I called A