Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 167
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August 31 - 1929 continued. the Balmeral Hotel. Have come 140 miles. At five miles E of St. Griv we saw a large road side cutting in grey-blue sl dipping steeply but not at all metamorphosed. Saw some small Electrum- Tonites scissus, and graptolite (few them). These strata are much grayer than the Lewis - Valley series and are mutilated or deformed. They are probably of the same age as the Tremadoc at Mont- morenci. This odder series we saw about 10 miles east of where we examined them. Farther west they flatten out to horizontality. At three Rivers occurs the Richmond series. Accordingly Logan's line must give into the southern Quebec Land within about 20 miles east of Lewis and gradually fan farther and farther south. The beautiful scenery of northern Quebec reminds at our 30 miles west of Lewis. The eastern boonies carry forest on a flat low terrace beneath which are Pleistocene clays and poor land. Tomorrow we are off to Phillipstown. Hope to secure Dr. One Belice (a student at Parker- tm.