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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