Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 24
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Transcription
Lawrence. This plain lies in front, as a free land, of the Laurentids and extends back [north] of Quebec. As these strata of the plain are horizontal one gets a good idea of the over thrust Dillen - Levis. Quebec series. In order if the dip of the horizontal strata is towards the St. Lawrence allowing more easily the Levi's channel material to slide ad role over it or if this is not so then the Mississippi sea material was either worked out at Quebec or pushed and cutted away by the sheer force. [This are] underneath. From Levis Point one gets I think the clue to the structure. Across the river it is thus