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Sunday June 3-1910 Arisaig.
Remained in the house during the morning finishing the
Antiesti joba with Troughel.
In the afternoon walked out 2½ miles to Mrs. Ares
Brook to see the so-called Deronian of red shales and agylacens
sandstones (Arie say they are tuff, stratal and volcanic ashes).
Near the Shore Road side Williams found 3 fragments of
fish remains. These deposits are evenly laid but at various
levels occur brick red shales full of small more or less
living nodules. These look more like continental deposits than
the rest. Going down the brook to near the shore one comes
upon a great mass of the dark basalt underlaid by the
Carboniferous and conglomerate of continental origin. Both of these
tub of against the Deronian in such a way that their great
position must be due to a fault.
the basalt at the top of the Stonehouse Lillenic cuts it off
here as at the Deronic of Mrs. Ares Brook. There must be
a fault here for in no other way can be explained the
position of these Carboniferous basalts against the Lillenic.
These basalts are clearly sheet flows for they are full of flow
dikes near the base. There are at least two of these flows
interwoven with the Carboniferous conglomerate of continental
origin. Also basalt of the same character that bits up again
the phylite at the base of the Lillenic section at Arisaig
join.