Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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Sep. 10-1919 Introduction On the turn of the railway, a short distance east of Main street the thick conglomerate is overlain = C by coarse sandstone, at least 20 feet thick. Is this then the same cong. seen on the hillsides street? (No) Apparently it is a finer one, [illegible], and it looks different. Does not look like the same as it has more sand and may lay green sandy shale pieces of the Laugon. Further east along the railway and thence almost to the ship yards at St. Roch de Louis there is the very thick sandy limestone conglomerate C of Raymond's plain. (The next day I made this out to be a difference) [Like those seen above my fourth root] it is overlain by a coarse sandstone also 20-25 feet thick, with fairly large number of small pieces of hom- stone. Below the sandstone conglomerate and limestone-sand cong. passes into sand then reddish limestones are there. From the reddish dense limestone with black shale partings. Below is a zone of several hundred feet thick of sandy green shales with thin gray of black shale. Strike is 85 yards across, with the strata dipping S., about 60 deg. Then comes in films a very thick coarse grained iron quartz cong., limestone cong. The thickness may be 100 feet.