Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 145
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"August 30, Continued muses out the Devonian and have partly deformed them more than. Several miles before getting to Matapeedia one sees much of the highly cleared dark blue l's and sh of the Mataford; a formation that we may know as Trenton age. They are well shown all around Matapeedia and we see them on the roadside at intervals for about 7 miles north. Everywhere the schist is very vertical but the bedding is at all angles from place to place. At Matapeedia and in about 40 miles of the stream the valley is narrow and the land rugged, but north to Causapscal it opens out widely and the country is low with rounded hills. At 12 miles up the Matafordia at the mouth of the Cusumet- quasam coming in from the east are fine exposures of the Orick- crag ss series or Crick may tells one. Walked around the village and came upon The Catholic Church built of l's in 1910. In the floors I saw an abundance of marine flora: istina, Orthids, Rhynchonella, Delthyra, Strophomella like goni- culata, Brachiopim? Plectammites & small Tetramoralls, Fa- vorites 2 sp., Stomatopora, hemispheric bryozoa, Platyceras and other trip. This is a Devonian combination before unlike any that I know. It appears to be well up in the Devonian. Where did this l's come from? Crick may had not looked at this church and so knew nothing of them then. Later I learn that it comes from near the south end of Matapeedia Lake, at Cal Brilliant."}