Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
Page 56
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"this limestone at low tide some of the men into pretty or rather as a tuff and grit is in a way. That in light ashes fell from time to time but not enough to destroy the life and or some corals (chiffy) and a few hook-jords (chiff I chntridali's) lived through it are. Then came the great volcanic eruption of apophyan 2 first an aggregate of ashes, lapilli and bombs going over into pillar lavas. On the top is again a tuff bed that may include some corals and other fossils. Filled holes there are almost completely filled but most of the geologists said they were amygdulose. Again the extended igneous surface is uneven and one or less the tops 1-7 with a total thickness of at least 178 feet. The very basal beds have much crinoidal material with an abundance of corals and hackio- jores. Then a coral zone. Apophyan / of lava beds.