Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 103
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Manitowaning, August 5-1912 Monday. Examined in the morning the small dry brook about 1/4 mile south of the village. Began to make the following section at the original grad level, downward going Farm flat limestone to first fence about 30 feet li, with some green shales, due lot of fossils on the farm for foot Faristella stillata are common and up to one for acres. R. capax at the center seen in 3 specimens. Then 6 feet of pure li with almost no shale joins, farm and almost bare of fossils. This level goes to top of first face of brook. Then 6 feet of li. like the last but with Tetra dion. Beatrixen may recur here. fibritum, Faristella stillata and very rarely a R. capax. Makes a water face and a sharp ascent of the farms. Then a pure shale gone with some shaly or impure limestone, the shale predominating. This for four feet. Saw R. capax, Q. sinuata. Makes the general level of farm land. About 11 feet thick. Richmond Our are we upon the conspicuous escarpment and rapid due to lake level. At the top we hear about about of limestone that make the top of the escarpment here are almost no fossils here and those seen