Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 89
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almost none. Even the byzgos are scarce whilst in time of the entire fauna. Ostracods and trilobites, Calpifacies and Halysites really make of the meagre faunas. The Grand Coupe Ordovician beds are much thicker and have more limestones than those near Mt. Joli. This means either very unequal or something before the Mt. Joli mass deposited or the fault between these two systems cuts out different zones. One reason why so few fossils are found is due to the immense crumpling, those beds have undergone. Still the fauna at best must have been a very small one. If all the Gaspe limestones and sandstones were also deposited about Pierce then the Murchilles and Pierce uplifted rocks must have originally stood nearly two miles high. These Outs once uplifted towards the close of the Devonian or early Caribou times and furnished the rocks for the Bonarantine conglomerate of township but a thickness.