Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 81
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Transcription
"Leafield August 1st 1912, Thursday. Started out in a buggy for Little Point and Honey Point. At Little Point we are in the Hurm Hull Shales with many "kettles" = concretions up to nearly four feet in diameter. There are many of these kettles and all exceed two feet in diameter and sometimes 3 can be seen in a space of ten feet. As a rule known they are irregularly spaced. All that we say lie in the general zone of from 6 to 8 feet thick but then there about are themone has here for an example, a little cliff beside Lake Hurm. These concretions split or weather through the centre when one sees that the core is in a felt with other masses. From this centre core in some struc- ture originates and then a fine radial structure to the outer periphery. This is a hack crystalline growth that Williams dates as the Dawn Kende. Have some pieces from near the periphery. These concretions tend but the strata, and about as much downward as upward. Around the centre of the face the Hack Shale huts up horizontally against the concretion. Saw no