Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
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24443 Perce, Quebec. in distance. Bonaventure conglomerate in Mt. St. Ann. Perce rock 24217 Perce, Quebec. Mt. St. Ann. Bonaventure conglomerate. 24423 Quebec. Montmorenci Falls. Contact Trenton limestone on Pre-Cambrian at crest of falls. Basal conglomerate at right. 16624 [illegible] at Clark's Head, east of Parrsboro N.S. J. Schuchert. 16632 Looking eastward across West Bay, Parrsboro, N.S. Basin of Mines on right. On left, Parrsboro formation "Sub-carboniferous" of Fletcher) Middle left Riversdale-Union beds unconformably below the Parrsboro, Partridge Island in center, Triassic S.S. and trap dipping to south. 1912 24422 Quebec City. Montmorenci Falls over Pre-Cambrian at fault line. Horizontal Trenton at top under [illegible] inclined Utica and Lorraine at right. [illegible] in picture 24223 Dalhousie, N.B. Devonian, Sub-marine (?) trap flow on left, overlain immediately by fossiliferous marine tuffs passing into limestones and shales at extreme right. Cypridula beds. 1913 24445 Perce, Quebec. Perce Rock (Grand Greve Limestone) and Mt. Joli (Ordovician) separated by a fault. 16648 From shore of West Bay. Partridge Island and Cape Blomidon in distance Triassic trap capping Triassic sandstone. Looking south eastward across the Basin of Mines. Riversdale Union and Parrsboro beds in foreground on beach. Parrsboro N.S. 1912 20741 Upright tree trunk in shales near base of coal measure. South of Indian Cove. Sydney Harbour, west side, above North Sydney. 1912 16641 Block from the basal conglomerate of the Parrsboro beds. ("Sub-Carbon- iferous" of Fletcher's maps) East of Parrsboro N.S. 1912 20750 Looking eastward across Courtney Bay from City of St. John N.B. to hills of Little River Group. The bay is entirely dry at low tide. Photo taken with tide about half or three fourths out. This is to be the future harbour of St. John. St. John, N.B. 1912.