Field Notebook: Ontario 1911, 1912
Page 33
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Transcription
Be then over to the south side of the run and there saw the lower beds = Cataract formation. Above the Queenstown comes in 16 feet of cleanly washed, white, fine grained and somewhat soft sandstone. This is the basal member of the Cataract formation as we saw yesterday but at Cataract it is 12 feet thick. Over the sandstone the exposure is not clearly shown but sufficiently once to make out a zone of green shales with thin bedded limestones that on some horizons are refulete with dolomite. By around the thickness is 64 feet, at the top, the shale is brick red and has some dolomite. These red bits are not that finally 2 to 3 feet and are sandy and sort of limestone. This the Cataract formation ter- minals at the mottled sandstone, and there, Clinton. Evidently the fine foot limestone and the 10 foot of magnesian neom dolomite thin bedded limestone and green shale partings are