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Transcription
"Little Current, August 11-1912. Sunday.
As the day is good we have taken the Lotus
for the north side of Great Croche Island. Left at
10.10 A.M. We arrive at the south end of Croche
Channel beside the railway at 12.30. As we go
drift along the channel we are along the east side
cutting into the so-called Chazy red shale. To the
north sticks out the Hurman ridge against which
we run into the Ordovician strata. It is
shequindas over again.
North
Red Chazy Hurman Ridge Ordovica
In a small tonning quarry in the railway dam near
Croche
the channel we see the red chazy and the limestone
lito city into the Limestone
and here a red shale series with intercalated magnesian
limestone. The contact is as follows:
[See the fossils from this locality.]
Red Chazy Limestone Series.
Libb Hurman
Donth quartzite
(At Onisquit to Harbour we saw the same Li on Aug 8
but then they are not red nor sandy but are heavy
tedded clay, Li with Clennanria).