Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Saturday August 30, Continued
our ideas only of the sequence here but as well
the mountain structure. On the other hand there maybe
Devonian
Great north thrusting too. Certain it is that a great fault
line with some thrusting runs from the Pierce' Porell
R.W., and that the Maltaq syncline has been pushed
probably
south over the Pierce anticline made in later Ord.
Time. If this is true then one will have to revise all
from ideas as to the direction of thrusting and folding.
Instead of coming from the Atlantic Ocean, it came
from the O.E. from the Labradorian part of the Cana-
dian Shield. This then could better explain the
north thrusting of the St. Lawrence foreland and out its
horizontal strata and the intensely crumpled Ord,
all along the S.E. side of the great river. Can those are
too? If so one have the explanation why Greater
Acadia is or different to its geology from the
Appalachian area.