Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
Page 66
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Transcription
"The structure of the cut is as follows (a syncline): - South side of cut E W Li. crop. These Li. crop. appear to be in line of strike with those seen on Sunday to the south of St. Joseph's village. One quarter of a mile to the east there is a low cut in green clay sand which meets then local lenses of green sandstone. One dips to the S.E. It looks like Leorn formation. One mile farther east of St Joseph is a cut at 10 mile fur are long hidden green sandstone, & the intermediate area seen only sho shows Ostets looks Leorn like though Reynmere flces it in the valley. About 1/2 mile more east is a lay out where the railway curves and constantly rises. It is in a long series of greenish shales with a few thin zones of red shales. Most of these red shales offers here to be due to something. Near the middle of the cut the green shales are interbedded with many thin (1-4") grey fine grained sandstones. A little farther east the green and