Field Notebook: Ontario 1911, 1912
Page 96
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Saguenay Trip. Monday Aug. 14-1911. As one steam down the St. Lawrence north of the Island of Orleans the Ordovician Plain of about 300 feet above the river is plain to be seen far back of Quebec all the way to beyond St. Ann de Beaupre. From the boat it looks quite level but in long stretches between 200 and 300 feet. Montmorcny Fall 274 feet. River St. Lawrence About 25 feet above river At the Falls of Montmorency at the top occurs the thin folded Trenton resting directly on the Laurentian crystalline. On front of the Falls occurs the down faulted or called Hudson River Shales. The down throw to the west must be considerably over 300 feet. North east of the Falls one seems to see the fault scarp thus Granite dome here. mountains of l'isle du Beaupre. Fault. Famous slope and plain. Fault. River