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Collingwood shale on Hurmian quartzite.
Near Sheguiandoh, Manitoulin.
Sheguiandoh Shales, dip S.
dip N. about 30°
Shells E.
The contact lies 112 feet above the lake and
from Collingwood all the way to the lake
level. As the C. is not over 60 feet thick this
shows how it rises and overrides the Hurmian
due to the Monadnock in the sea. On one
place that but
the shale against the quartzite is full
of angular fragments of the latter. Also the material
wattled loose are riddled down the slope
into the sand of the sea. None of these pieces
are rounded or water worn.
There is Collingwood shale to the north and
to the south of the Huronian quartzite. To the
south one does not at once see more than the
Collingwood but to the north the Eden soon
appears and after about one mile more the
Richmond. I would interpret the array
of this monadnock as follows: