Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
Page 59
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Wednesday Sep. 17- 1919. A fine clear and warm beautiful day. Started in rain to make the sketch of the following paper and to enter one of the sea-crashed conglomerates. As said before one half of the conglomerate is sandstone bottles, most of which are not unlike the quartzite of the Liley; these bottles are of green sandstone or even quartzites, wholly sandstone and sometimes of almost white are hard quartzites. Other quartz-bottle conglomerates are at all different from those of the Liley. The other half of the bottles are of more cloud structures, limestone. Extremely rare is there one with joints. The whole is cemented with the Liley sandstones or quartz, and are the layers interposed are filled in with reddish Liley sometimes or quartz-bottle conglomerate. For all the whole has been folded, faulted and jointed and fearfully torn of any by torsion; so that one is now bounded with calcite veins. The faulting sometimes accounts for the sharp ending of the Liley sandstone against the limestone and for giving the appearance of flood masses. It was thus that I wished one before.