Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario 1913
Page 45
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Brimsby, Ont. August 20 -1913. Saturday Left Hamilton at 10.10 by electric rack way and got to Brimsby at 11.30. Stopping at the "Village Inn" a first class house. The section is along Forty Mile Run. Queenston shale occurs of the gable some distance. Along the southeast wall one gets the first continuous exposure of the Siluria, Whirlpool sandstone rests upon Queenston in regular conformity. Under surface of sandstone is again filled in the sun cracks of Queenston. Basal four inches with much iron pyrite and the green shale pebbles of the Queenston occur in the basal 1/2 inches. The lower heavy redded sand- stone is 5 feet thick and then follows thinner redded sandstone for 12 foot more. Cataract and well exposed. At the top occurs brick red sandy shales, and directly upon these without transition rests the mottled red and grey Chredon sandstone in heavy beds. These are 12 feet thick followed by more than