Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 112
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"with the Lorraine - Black River series. Some of the fossils are up to an inch in diameter. Over these follows the Lorraine - Black River series, and then the Trenton series, the top of which occurs here at Little Current. Outside of the milk-white Lorraine bed, those that I saw the other magnesian limestones have caused the character of the same deposits seen at Mt Beloit Wisconsin. It seems to me to be the New York series in every way, only that here the limestones are more magnesian and of lighter color. The old Huronian floor was a very irregular one and some of the higher places once and eroded until Utica time. It is partly due to this irregular floor that the Ordovician strata can lie in domes. Where contacts can be seen then the Ordovician strata always dip away from the Huronian wall directions. Posterson Toronto arrived at 5.30 P.M. and Professor Parks and Walder at 9.30. There are now five of us to talk plans for the Geological Campion Excursion. Stopping at Queens Hotel.