Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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Some places show the sandstone moved while soft, are that consequently flow by in - pushing limestone emplo- [illegible] These conglomerates are probably all or in the main of cliff origin. To the sea was being delivered such quantities of sharp sand and gritty pebbles as these made good grinding material to undermine the cliffs. The sandstone and limestones as they fell into the sea were more or less rounded and angularful in the pure sand stones of Lillery times. I saw no sandstone boulders larger than 4ft square across, and the limestone boulders very rarely are more than 3 feet thick. Probably the vast majority of boulders are under one foot in diameter and cut are fairly well rounded, gives the idea that the pieces are out of their bedded formations as the boulders are not flat ones.