Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 123
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2849 colors far stronger than in a bright day. Arrived at Port Daniel at 2 P.M. with a stormy sea m. Put up at Le Grand Hotel run by a Jersey-man by the name of Le Grand. Later walked down along the coast of the bay towards the steamers craft. Just beyond the bridge over the estuary of Middle River in nearly vertical strata is bed of corals practically a reef. Here Eridophyllum (two species one with small corallites the other with very large ones) are very common. Other corals are Halysites, Favosites, Heliolites and shells I noticed Rhynchotrema cuneatum, Leiochlamis? and other species. The rock however is somewhat metamorphosed due to the immense squeezing on it that fossils do not weather out well. A little beyond on the track appears a red very coarse conglomerate marked on the map as Lomix which to me appears to be the Bauriavus conglomerates. It is unconformable to the Silurian and agrees best with the Bauriavus conditions. Beyond these conglomerates at St. a l'Enfer