Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 107
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"correlations none seem to fit. It seems to me that Dalhousie and Gaspe are in two [illegible] rather distance from the shore of Laurentia though but with inter communication, in this condition that makes the two areas or land to correlate. Then for this northeastern area must have undergone movements during the deposition of the Devonian which is clearly indicated by the abrupt change from a limestone to a coarse sandstone with light colored shale gives in the Gaspe series. At Basin Cove the Gaspe limestones are less than a half mile (south) from an exposure of vertical shales, red and black with bands of sandstone- probably of Ordovician age. There seems to be no chance here for beds of Silurian age and yet such are present only 40 miles to the west at Anticosti. They are also present to the NE as Portland. Gaspe gives a series of flint shales with thin bands of impure limestone, The shales predominate. Resemble the Dalhousie beds but