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Saturday July 2-1910 Arisaig.
The "Red Slatonic" at the top of the Moydart formation.
Below are thin bedded sandy limestones of a greenish color for about
one foot in total thickness that towards the top introduce very thin
bands of the red shale. There are marine prints here chiefly ostraco-
coda. Then about 4 inches of stratified red shales with thin
papery limestones some of which have ostracoda. Then the heavy
bedded indistinctly stratified red or maroon unprinciples
sandy shales that is vertically cleaved. In the lower and upper
portions there are many living small emersions arranged along
the bedding planes.
At the top the red beds are sharply differentiated from the higher
green arenaceous shales that have an occasional very thin cross
bedded sandstone or an arenaceous limestone with poor red indistinct
pedestals. I cannot see no pieces of the red shale embedded in these
greenish shales. While the contact between them is sharp there appears
the due no overlap.
The upper shale part of the Stonehouse formation has but
few prints and upon unconformably rests the decidedly amygdala-
doloidal trap. On the other side of the trap is the red sandy
shale and conglomerate said to be Carboniferous. It is a very
decided continental deposit with zones of once or more angular
fragments of the Siluric shales at London hits intruded with
brick red shales and thinner zones of conglomerate with smaller
pebbles. The "Carboniferous" has zones of a finely crystalline
intrusive.
In the afternoon examined the geology to the east of