Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 128
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(Zt no 3) I collected some. The next step began to introduce the very heavy bedded motled red limestone found all along the shore. These are Bascon where a shale series begins and continues to near Pt aux Boisany, just before reaching this pt, the Carbonic fossils crypto- morpha is again present. Climbed off the high rise to the south-west (through continuous to Amadala la Rive) of Anse au Bascon, and after a long search was rewarded with some brachiopods. It seems that the unweathered limestone when broken newly reveals a good fossil but much weathered pieces that could well under the summer dry yield fossil specimens. My collection is very small. The only way to make a large collection will be to take a months time in searching the entire mountain zone for the right kind of rock with fossils. The beds seem to be in nests. There are some cards in these nests but as a rule are very scarce. On a fresh fracture the rock looks much like Tennessee marl, I saw quite a lot of more Pelespods are seen, Forbis Lot No 4.