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August 9-1921. Tuesday.
A fine bright morning, and at 6.30 we are off for the north. Did all from mouth in the first 7 miles north and southbank of Milton.
Saw a great deal of the Lower Cambrian dolomites, sandy dolomites and intraformational conglomerates. The dolomites are always thick bedded and usually dark hue color. The sandy dolomites are lighter gray and more thinly bedded than the pure dolomites. The peculiar feature of these is their sand which is coarsely granular in size and always more or less rounded.
The dolomite conglomerates are very variable in the quantity of the pebbles. Frequently they are angular irregular pieces of two to three kinds of limestone and dolomite, and at other times the pieces are thin, flat and like those of the Bellman town intraformational conglomerates. These flat pieces more often lie flat, but may be at all angles, and sometimes cut into bedding. They then take on the character