Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 142
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suggests the presence of Devonian here. In reading Elles crop notes one gets the idea that his Devonian of the Case species are the gray conglomerates as seen today at Red Cape. To me they are however nothing more than that as I see of the Bmarantium. Further I saw no uncompravity between the gray and red conglomerates - both one of one series and are comparable all successive. Elles writes of an abundance of corals and brachiopods. It is true that the corals are abundant but they are rolled over out of the Diluvian rocks. This could be best seen in the Stromatoporas all of which were rolled fragments. The mere fact that these Diluvian corals are so abundant as one gives is no more difficult to explain than that of the brown green shell is made of rolled pieces of the chert. The succession in a dark or greenish Hassel conglomerate followed by a gray living one and then the red Bmarantium conglomerates. Now that I have seen the Diluvian of Port Daniel, Black Cape and Ariswig I cannot