Field Notebook: New Bruswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario 1900, 1927
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August 26-1927. Trolling at Bonaventure formation to smiths Perce. clay sea-fink. All the well rounded pebbles, as if stream rocks, vein-quartz, and very rarely one sees a small red Granite pebble, Jasper pebble, fairly common and some are rich in tin. Some of these hard pebbles exceed 4 meters in dia. All other and softer pebbles are sub-rounded, of older limestones and muddy sandstone. Saw many Perce Rock. Those of the rolls up to 8 meters across ad maybe layers. Many Bonaventure and red mica- ceres mixed with some cream-baked stream sandstones. The latter and Grey formation are not quite. Saw some current action but are lim