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Bie, Quebec, Tuesday, Aug. 27-1924
More or less a dark day and we left Sagatec at 8 A.M. No dust today but hared smoke last night.
On the road side about 5 miles NW of Onoise we looked at a ls engl like those of Bie, Its associated with the greenish greg quartzite. Dip 45 S. Blocks up to 3 feet across. A sand matrix.
Passed Rimouski at 10:15 and got to Bie at 10:45 A.M. Put up at Canada Hotel.
Spent the rest of the day studying the ls engl between Bie Village and the sea shore to the east of the estuary and the island during the afternoon group. These ls engls are in the dark blue sh series of the Loris-Lillery formation. They are here associated with a light greenish to white coarse quartzite that is more or less engl. with cream quartz pebbles. The matrix of the engl and the vitutddu [illegible] 90 are a very coarse greenish ss reptile with quartz pebbles usually less than 1/2 inch across and up to 2 inches. Of ls there are three kinds, most common is a dove colored brittle one and another like
Lacdaese but miltar the Physisis - an arenaceous one without coarse sand grains, and the Glenellas piece. The quartzites are variable, but all appear true of the associated quartzite (= and remind of the Laysonges and engls, are informative). Large pieces of feldspar occur and we saw six green boulders up to one foot across. Corbin collected samples of all the kinds of pebbles seen. Large mano