Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
Page 65
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Friday Sep. 19 - 1919. Just to the east of St Joseph station on the Intercolonial Railway is shown the primary section. The strata at first dip about 30° to the east but soon flattens out and dips perhaps from 20t. 30 to the SE. Green sandy shales at west end of one sided cut, 30 feet even. Li. cryst. 30" Green shales with thin local lenses of Li. cryst. 4' Li. cryst. 12"tr 18" Green shales with thick local lenses of Li. cryst. (12"t. 14") 8' One bed of Li. cryst. 12' Dark green sandy sile with thin op [2"] 2' Li. cryst. 3' The li. pebbles are here more flat than usual and lie with the bedding. They are about as rounded as usual. Some are up to 2' across. Some are sandy gritty, and all are embedded in a sandy matrix that weathers yellow. Sandy green shale 6" Li. cryst. 2' Green shale 12" Li. cryst. 5' Green shale 18" Li. cryst. 3' sh. 12" Li. cryst. 2' Green shale unknown thickness