Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 67
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Jaquet River, Thursday, July 18 - 1929. Doctor Alecott told us in his car into the area of the Bathurst sheet. First to the one at Turgeon Village and then rested for about 1/4 miles. When the road from the church to the one ends one comes upon what looks like the "Basen" (Later made it out as Barbe's S). sheer. These are here muddy SS, greenish, creamy red. As a rule the strata are banded films with zones of shallow ripples and an occasional zone of sun-cracked surfaces. One of the latter ones have been rain pitted. As one goes up in the series the surfaces of separation between the beds become more and more often arthritic (the grains are small), and in places that are crypt, with the fossils, up to 1/2 inch. Towards the top once and more crypt. zones are introduced and now some of the fossils are of the Bas- (=surface) en itself. Here beds are decidedly cryptic. Then follows more gneiss SS like those below, followed by an area 600' across or once with no rock exposure. Average dip 45° to W. Just resting headland exposures Basen, also banded with zones of collars, and now all are more crypt-bedded. They are to be seen along the south shore of the estuary that I have, Back if ever exposes Baraventine. Last headland across at least 300' of "Basen", and the full way over into the exposures no Silurian. The "Basen" must continue from where first seen up to the Turgeon crypt, and for a thickness of around 1000 feet. Alecott will measure it with chain.