Field Notebook: Ontario 1911, 1912
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Niagara Falls, Aug 8 - 1911. At the Whirlpool Rapids in the Lower Medina may be seen good examples of bottom scouring and rolling up of the bottom muds by the storm waves. Extend far to left. Red Shales 30" sandstone 6" 30" a. Some of the rolls show that the clay was still soft and squeezed into the rolls before final entombing. They are folded thus 8" thick by 14" long. Basal sandstone. To the east of the Whirlpool Rapids station about 2 miles may be seen the contact of the white basal sand- stone upon the brick-red shales of the Queno- town. The contact is abrupt here, as a rule the horizontal contact is very smooth but in one place saw a decided channel cut by the sandstone into the red clay.