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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