Field Notebook: Bermuda, New Brunswick, Quebec, Vermont 1929
Page 97
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"Hugh Miller Cliffs" The bedding is so regular and coars e or wide an area that one must conclude that the Devonian is not of fine definition, but in a sort of delta deposit at the inner end of an estuary. No one has ever reported in the higher Der any marine fossils, but the beds over y Campbeltown have ostracoda (Rhodania) and reptiles are different. These lower strata may be typical estuarine, while those of Hugh Miller cliffs are of fresh water delta. Britholepis and Archaeopterus indicate Upper Devonian time but it cannot be of the later Der. The apparent conformability of the Bonarenture on the Devonian perplexes me as the Acadian folding came long before the time of the Bonarenture. Can it be that the Der in this area lay almost flat after the B, over laid on it, and that the deformation present is post B? I am puzzled today as much as I was in 1913 when I wanted to include these "Bonarenture" strata in the Salpe series. I can present a good argument that the "B maranture" is not the true one of the eastern end of Salpe, but upon the whole the upper red series had better be regarded as of the Bonarenture.