Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
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Quebec June 2-1908 Tuesday, Walked up the St Lawrence on the Levi side about 2 miles and set down to make three notes on the sketch in other side. All of the strata at Levi are very different from those of Quebec. There are beds of crystalline whitish different limestone, alternate with considerable limestone of a milky white color in the weather. These pass into gneiss slabs at the end or green slabs, and then come red slabs within 2 miles of the ferry. It seems to me the section is complete across from Levi to Quebec. If there are, must it not be a Hard syncline? Then walked down the river from Levi Ferry to St Joseph. Here one sees several conglomerates, me especially being well developed and probably 10 feet or more thick. I can not believe that these are conglomerates in the ordinary sense rather intra formational conglomerates. In one place the beds underneath the conglomerate is an arenaceous limestone and the stratification somewhat cross bedded. Then follows the conglomerate with the pieces of all sizes are