Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
Page 55
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Dalhousie R. B. July 19-19/3 Drew on the entire section with Dr. Bancroft, working the soft basal tuff of the edge of the low land beyond Sturants farm comes in volcanic tufts = ashes with lapilli and bombs. Have two samples. The then goes on into lava flows and again soft material of violently erupted rocks. This left the sea bottoms very soft. Over it is then de- posited beds 8-11. In bed 11 occur the Lediella pseudogaleata and Leptaenocera. The fossils lie directly on the igneous ash and bomb material. Ledication is more regular through 217 feet but the volcanoes cry over and then throw out ashes and lapilli. But 9 is again a tuft almost all made of of lapilli and no fossils. Even the "comp act limestone" (art) is filled with ashes and has some fossils. It is thought a rare probability that one can trace to the "inclusion" of Clarks that one sees now Sturants book. On the beach where one sees