Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
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none rounded. Usually the limestone piece are flat and then and those are of a white limestone in an arenaceous paste. There is also some shale, but the variety of material is not such as one expects in a conglomerate of this kind. Daleth's idea of fossils in the pebbles being different than those of the earth cannot be plain, nor the fact that cryl 2 has cambrian fossils mixed with ordovician. As one goes towards St. Joseph and at the first cut in the intercolonial having rock on the two sides one sees the shale give black weathering dustery, about ten feet thick between a good shale band below and a ? conglomerate above with the Phyllograptus Tetrapodus fauna. As one goes on further towards St. Joseph, the strata give the impression of the rocks along Champlain strut in Quebec. From St. Joseph one has a fine view of the Laurentides and the cut Ordovician plain with the falls of Montmorenci deploying it is said 275 feet to the St.