Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 113
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Little Current, August 9-19/12. Friday. Stayed here last night to see the fine exposures along the new railroad building from here north to the Canadian Pacific Railway. It rained again during the night and rain this morning. All concluded not to go out. Or are talked out of the Campen trip for next year from Toronto around the lakes to Collingwood. Talking with Forste about the succession of Devonians North and elsewhere I learned this: There is one Chazy here but the '? Chazy' of Bell is the introductory material to the Lorraine or rather a formation of Ulrichs that is older than Lorraine. It does not appear break the succes- sion in then through the Lorraine into the Black River and Tarentum into the Collingwood black shale. This shale joins unbroken into the Hue-Shales which are Eden- and are marked with Orthocella ulrichi. The question now arises is there any Lorraine here and cannot make anomalous because the faunas are not worked out. Or true Cataggya erratica occurs here but a form--possibly a new form--of the C. healdi group, with these occur