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"The Middle Green shales in the thin lime-
stone around in Helsona and on these
slats seem thus brachydors, but they are
far less numerous than before.
In the ferruginous layers Helsona are
increasingly dominant, and while they are
also present in the upper green shale they are
failing abundant.
Of the Queenston deposits about 250 feet
can be seen about the station of the Forks of
Credit. They are all brick-red beds with an
occasional green grey band in it or so in
thickness. The first of the red beds appear at Streetsville
Junction 21 miles away to North.
Parts suggest the name Cataract for
these "Clinton" beds because they are well ex-
plosed in the Cataract of the Credit which is
written a half mile of the Cataract Junction
of the C.P.R.
The Niagara Cuesta can be traced all the
way from Niagara to Collingwood. The C.P.R.
climbs of the Cuesta from a little west of