Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 89
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Transcription
English Bay, then reddish grey, conglomerate, fracturing limestone with almost no shale parting. The fossils are almost none, the commonest being Heloprion (hygrom) and Rafinesquian. Then there are the Pascelius (Pasculis = Dq). beds we saw June 18 underlying B7. At this cliff there is a very slight angle and everywhere the dip is exceedingly slight. In this room one has to go miles before getting into lower horizons. There are a number of conglomerate layers of no particular significance for there one beneath the Pascelius horizon, forms the west of this cliff that is about 3 feet thick and of the same character as that described for June 9. These beds must have been made when this layer was the sea bottom and a violent storm churned it and disturbed the bottom. On the arched falls are the regular fossils belonging to the horizon. Just above this dolomitie conglomerate layer.