Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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Sep. 11 - 1919 Continued from 2/pa. road. At the turn of the railway on the first one sided cut (cliff mouth) the conglomerate C strata continued and to the south of it in a terrace formed very badly as I described yesterday. The one mile some li. conglomerate in it. To the north of it are the way to the iron the sequence is confirmable and then in fairness 200 feet more of fine sandy shale, but the stiff loose clay seen in it can yesterday down and down here. This sandstone appears to be at least 20 foot thick. Fine shale above its bottom has a or much washing here that it is maybe thinner. The conglomerate may be 15 feet or thick, but then again we cannot be certain. (The next # describes beds that come in higher and) our forms as primarily thrust. Then at the turn sided railway cut there is another (a long --) some with li. cong. (the whole quarry filling) li. conglomerate but unlike any of those seen before, at least 15 foot thick and maybe more, say not more than 20'. About 20 foot above the cong. comes in the fine Tetrasporites -Crenatopitys gone and considerably lighter (green 2'-30') in the Phyllograptus gone. This is where Honey put my material and the famous Leios profittensis beds. It is about 100 yards down to low water in the river area some hard green shales. Mr Cong. seen, other