Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 160
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August 27 continued shore shore of Bie. From the size of the out to the W of Bic the quartzites and engl are here in perfect form and one wonders how all that could have been gotten from cliffs. Probably 1/3 of the engl samples another third is of the intraformational broken quartzites, and the remainder is sand and rock quantity. Then there some of the sand in the quartzite zones. Even though these engl are found yet here at Bic they occupy the shore for a length yet least ten miles. The many ridges may be repetitions of narrow zones. But a great list of fossils from Lower Cambrian pieces some of which were 8 to 12 inches across. Could there have been a great tidal bore in this period dis tearing down and distributing far and wide the land derived material. Quebec City, August 28-1959 A cold raw windy morning. Started out before 8 A.M. south of Bic to see if we could find mac? Lemaire points near the Creamery found ten years ago. Failed to find a trace of any granition. Then monitored two miles more to the S, but all we saw were slates that might once have been the Lewis-Dalley series, dark, green and red sh with bands and this else, lie from way on the quartzite underlying date of August 29-1929. At 10.30 we started for Lewis. Had a puncture both tires at 6.30 P.M. Put up at Orleans Hotel at Lewis.