Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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"the section appears as at one. As one rides eastward the heavy environmen- tic sandstone of the Launay drop out more and and then dominants there are also green shales, core are becomes the red Dillery shales, 10- orands the top of the Dillery way thin sandy bits sometimes only and the [illegible] of considerable thickness come in. Those are always that usually an inch a four thick though at times considerably thicker. All of this Dillery is much crushed and rolled over and churned up, so that the thin green shales get all smudged in among the red shales, and the sand- stones are all broken up and at times badly crushed into the shales. Almost from Grandview river eastward one slarly ascends in the Dillery because this for- mation strikes a little obliquely into the river, and the fur the river has cut quite a narrow Dillery. Cap Range is made of the Launay sandstone river they in after sandstone but maybe far higher stone. score in the railroad cuts. On the north side of the