Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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extend east towards the ship's yards. Their length does not appear to be more than 1/2 mile at rest. All the fossils seen are of either upper Cambrian or Ordovician age, and I rather think the latter. Of cephalopods I saw at least three. They are circular in section with the left side considerably encroached, but none showed the siphuncle which leads to the line that it may be small. One of the cells was 1/8 inch in diameter with an excelling of the surface. As no cells are known in the Cambrian it would seem that there was here a good development of Ordovician. These milky white li, are exceedingly scant in fossils. Among rocks about 4 feet deep that had considerable fossils. It is possible that a sledge hammer and a chisel well would yield some good fossils. Some of these limestone had undergone diagenetic change in the formation of bipyridal stalactite. This or creamy becomes silicified and supports laminated algal growth. But they are anagenic.