Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 139
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Transcription
"In the afternoon walked out along the railway [illegible] From five above the base of the brick up to some undetermined distance continue grit and sedimentary hearl which maybe regarded as the Lorraine shales. Where then is a gradual introduction of argillaceous limestone that gradually becomes thicker and more abundant the higher one gets. Probably 40 feet above the base of the Lorraine the limestones have Ambonychia radiata, Arctidiscus concentricus and only Or. falcadi formis. In physical characters these beds are just like those at Clay Cliff only there are here fewer limestones and the gruelite is far less abundant. I take these beds to be about middle Lorraine and about the same horizon as the one collected in at Clay Cliff. It must be in these beds that Whittaker got "Catalogus erratic" On Sunday, dark and threatening once rain so that drove home to work on the Section Tomorrow,