Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wea. WED. JAN. 13, 1909 Ther. The intraformational conglomerates here can be explained in the regular way -- suppose of their li. bottom, our dred a & the worked off into the angular pieces of li. in a lying shale matrix. This condition can best be seen along the Canadian Chat R.R. near the St. Joseph ship yards. But the li. engl. with older li. tongues see due to explain. There are no shore lines here, and therefore no cliffs from which the boulders could have come. Ice-keys could have brought them but there are too many conglomerates to be explained in this way! If the great masses of limestone in the quarry back of Laugres are the Ogardian in place then were the cliffs from which the boulders came as the sea rolled against 'em. Could the St. Lawrence personative have been undergoing slight ridging and folding of its bottom during the time of the Beekmantones? If so then all the engl. might be explained as derived from local folding during L.C. and Beekmantone time. Remember when phenomena is local the coal occurs all the way from Newfoundland and to