Field Notebook: Florida, Quebec, Vermont. 1929, 1930
Page 91
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Sunday August 31-1930, continued What makes the lower lasses or tried out I do not know but the samples taken should explain this. In the late afternoon had an auto take me to the Cambrian locality and found it to be 2 4/10 miles from Corner on the Beach. Then drove on to 5 3/10 mile and turned back. S and W of the Cambrian loc, some hundreds of feet one sees loose pieces of the Cambrian and one block had one Cryptogorn. Less than 1/2 mile beyond comes in a squizy-hardened myacene shale that stands vertical. Then shortly a stretch of 1/2 to 3/4 mile of brown bedded dense light blue ls devoid of fossil remains. It reminds most of the Richmondian but what the age is in ignorance unknown. It has a dip of about 80° N. to W. The green shale may belong to the C and as the road line runs along the strike of the C may not be much above the C ls. Then appear to follow directly the brown bedded ls of appearing to? Richmondian. I saw not the slightest evidence of overthrusting and the entire sequence seems to be normal. In this event all of the Lower and Middle Ordovician is out. If so that is a remarkable occurrence after what we expected from our knowledge of the St. Lawrence Valley.