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paired. Due as at Collingwood the Oggotts
deposit of the higher beds.
In the afternoon had Mr. Turner take us
in his launch to the northwestern end of
this is Mosquito bay La Cloche island. Here I saw the relation
of the Ordovician strata to the Huronian but
no actual contact. It is as follows
Huronian
Quartzite
with an occasional
shale band.
around
Black River
Limestone
Lake level
(beneath the Larville)
In the lower beds we found here I saw Bonio-
ceras anceps, Ormoceras tenuifilum, Climinaria
dredatu, Sturmatocerium and Reciflaculite.
corvens. Above these beds are some beds of less than 15 feet thick
that are
Larville like limestone full of Phytopsis
tubularum. If these are Larville then what are
the lower Black River beds with Crinophania?
Williams went around the north end
of the island and saw the basal so called
Chags deposits. They are red shales with bands
of conglomeratic sandstones and derived
fossils. They are not of Chags age but go in