Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 147
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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