Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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Transcription
"Quebec Bridge, Sept. 13 - 1919. A high sunny day, the first one at Quebec. In the railway cut between the Chaudiere river [across in Laugzon] and the railway bridge, it is 270 yards sandstone. The southern 90 yards have some shale, but not much. [interbedded] The dip is high, about / 45 to 58 degs. The thickest beds are all the most, one is 75 yards deep at least. across the map road It's 300 yards from the edge of the cut to the south end of the bridge and from the surrounding cliff [and other rock in the transitions] simply all the distance is made up by sandstone. This makes 5-70 yards of sandstone. From the sandstone [across] in the Chaudiere river [from the map bridge] I think that this stepping of the distance is more too great. There are probably some shale gaps in the northern 200 yards, as in the southern 90 yards. This gives a thickness of about far for these sandstones alone of the Laugzon formation.