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Transcription
"Just a little beyond (above) the Miguasha way appears a zone of conglomerate with the more
rounded pebbles hardly cemented together in the
grey sand. Of this zone about ten feet can be
seen. The pebbles are of granite, schist, gneiss,
shale and limestone, the latter look more like
Trenton than of higher formations.
Then follows sandy shales for ten feet of a
light blue color or rathering to a light grey. This
is followed by a blue shale or-athering down
into small flakes. In these shales are found
thin seams of gypsum in small lenses. The
mossases the joints are associated with the
gypsum in flat nodules. Bothirlepis not
common. This zone may be 100 feet thick. On
these shales follows thin bedded sandstone with
beds of shale together having a thickness of
about 20 feet. Fossils occur in the sandstone
but one peculiar zone is in the shale at the
junction with a sandstone. As a rule here
the bones are separated by an excellent matrix;
this goes to their abundance.
specimens are quarried for here. Have a slot of a