Field Notebook: Florida, Quebec, Vermont. 1929, 1930
Page 67
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Transcription
"Corner of the Beach, Tuesday Aug. 26th 1930" Got here this morning at 9.15 and before 10 o'clock was in any way to see the cliffs to the south west. The head of Malta has a sand spit several miles across from the south with the Tickle at the north over which the rail way has an iron bridge. Back of the spit is one of the large Barachris of Saffo and it maybe Clarke's typical example. The R.O. of Barachris is on the north shore of Malta just beyond the Tickle and where we leaves the R.R. In Pointe St. Peter. As we gets to the "NW" end of the cliffs looking to high south shore of Malta we one meets with about 50' of interlaced dull- ned weathering fine grained arkose ss (from tram '13) and a crassie greenish-grey conglomerate. Towards the top the boulders are small under two inches but in the lower part one much larger up to six inches or more across. In the higher conglomerate about ½ of the boulders are yellow stained well rounded vein quartz usually under one inch thick down one 2" long. There is chief material but jasper and granite is comparatively rare, along with a little of siliceous stones. Limestones are not common at the top but below is the dominant rock and all look to me like Grand Trenches, due to examples. These are the older Saffo Sandstone Series [but are again separated as Ganne de Pyto = Pompeian Formation]. In the greenish-grey ss there are beds with an abundance of cutinized plant fragments and among them are pieces that look like Psilophyton. In the lower conglomerate, there is an abundance of cutinized lumps, one is 8" x 4"; another 6" at top 10" below with coal layers on its outside.