Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
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Quebec July 14-1913. Ruth Lewis. It rained off and on throughout the day but not enough to wet through. After breakfast on the train started to see the gully at 8.30. About one mile to see the first part of the nine, the red and green shales of the Gully. In one place there was a thick zone, 10 feet, of conglomerate sandstone. The red shales are more dominant. In the green part found the Ostella pretiosa, but Raymond tells me that this species also occurs in the red shale. There are practically no fossils in the Gully for the O. pretiosa is rare. Raymond says that some gastropods have been found but he has not seen any and does he know where they are. Logan thinks the Gully overlies the Lewis shales but it is now the opinion that they underlay the former. Raymond thinks the two series are separated by a fault but to me it seemed like a complete transition from one to the other. The supposed unconformities are to me nothing more than twistings in the strata.