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"Higher a later decomposition was more perfect as the feldspars
are practically absent and the shore was somewhat further away. When
the Creceryathinae appeared the shore was not very far away for in
these beds there are grains with considerable sand. In the help of
however the material is mainly a limestone but locally seems
to be somewhat magnesian.
"The size of grain of the conglomerate and sandstone is about
the same throughout. Cross bedding occurs at all levels. The marked
difference however is that the basal beds have much red feld-
spar and dark mica (fertilite). For this reason these lower beds
are red in the cliffs. Higher up the feldspar is absent or
practically so and therefore the heavily bedded conglomerate
just beneath the Creceryathinae are light pink to whitish.
In those upper sandstones the conglomerate grains are more local,
the pebbles are fairly well rounded and average a 1/4 inch in
diameter.
"In the river valley back of Blanc D'Avon are exposed
masses of granite on both sides of the river. The altitude above
the sea is the same as the mass upon which the JST Bros
Establishment is built. I judge these are about 30 feet above
sea level. The masses higher up the streams are the base upon
which the Cambrian was laid but all of the latter has been eroded
off here. A little distance beyond the Cambrian is exposed and
it is the auric red conglomerate with an abundance of feld-
spar,