Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 123
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"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).