Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
Page 77
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"These they call stromatolites (or its) From Grand Chasm to One Kimm Harmon we see crude gypsum and these an underlain by great thickness of orestical coal- stromates that are and there a bed of red sandstone. These conglomerates are made up of all sorts of stones but little rounded and of all sizes up to 18 inches across. Prof Lord- smith says it is the material you and cli- mate washed by cloud burst into a canyon. It's just the material one sees today grading in the arid plains of the N.S. Therefore joint of high lands adjacent to sea ways into which was formed the airbase of the Cambria and Pre-cambrian mountains! The transportation was not far from the seat of origin. If we may generalize from the character of the sedimentation it would appear that at the end of the Georgian days where made throughout the Paleozoic Provinces and that the