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Arisaig, Saturday, July 26 1913.
Our train is lying at Quitsmist.
Started out at 8 A.M. to drive 22 miles
to Arisaig. Called on Mrs McDonald,
but ran the Arisaig section with the
engine but learned nothing new.
The igneous material at the top of the
Storehouse formation is interpreted as a
dike and by others as a lava flow. Carr-
uthers state it is a flow with some faulting
along both sides, he says the holes are not
hollow nor are there early surfaces as
one should expect if a dike. Further,
the dike has joints at the top in which
occurs shale material. This dike looks
like this.
Storehouse
formation.
Red Devonian
dike igneous.
Carruthers thought the Arisaig fauna had
close resemblance with the Silurian of Great