Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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"Quebec, Wednesday Sep. 10-1919 Rains are night and all the morning. In the afternoon it quit and I returned to Lewis. On the first N-S street [the main street] of the city a thin limestone conglomerate layer 30 feet thick. About 7/10 of the mass is made of subrounded mostly-white limestone inside a light blue or dirty clined, the interstices filled with either grey quartz or sandy limestone or milk-a-sand. The limestone are granularly fine embedded like that of the Lorraine. Other layers filled with a sandy yellow or other distinct are shot through with holes reminding of birdseye li, and some are granular. Rarely is there a thick milk finish; more loose tumbledite head suggesting Upper Cambria, and in another a gneiss-like a cyrtocrinus like cyclopora. One also sees pieces of a sandy shale or many blocks or conglomerate up to 18" long of the Lorraine sandstones. No pre-Cambrian crystalline are present, but some layers, the thick ones; are the pieces are small, under four inches, and in other layers the blocks are from 6 to 54 inches long by 1 to 8 or 10 inches thick. Some of this material was transported far and may all be the country of sea cliffs. At the bottom and top are