Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
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Bathurst, B. B. July 13-1929 one m[illegible] area[s], it might as well be called Bravens. true formation. See the sample from the type locality on the bank of the [illegible] River. Tried to telephone to Albrecht Alers, but could not find him, so Tom on our way will go to Jacquet River where we hope to connect with him. Jacquet River, July 14-1929 Sunday morning and no breakfast until 8 A.M. Left Bathurst at 9 A.M. and then drove north about 3 miles and [illegible] mile more north on the Intercolonial Railway to the bridge over the Tétamouche River. From the bridge one sees low exposures for about 1/8 mile along the north bank of the river. The Haall Shales, with some calcarenites, hard shales, and an occasional green shale beds, of the series, may be 100 to 150 feet thick, and all of it is more or less profitable for fossils, but some of the specimens are fod. [illegible] stand on end and are once a lot twisted and are frequently slicen-sliced. The gap thus make a loss of not on reflection and distortion.