THE 



CANADIAN NATURALIST 



AM' 



^uavterfy §0uvttal of Science. 



ON THE SURFACE GEOLOGY OF THE BAIE DE 



CHALEUR REGION. 



By Rokert Chalmers. 



(Read before the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. Feby. 7th. 1882.) 



In a paper which I had the honor to read before this Society 

 in March, 1881, on " The Glacial Phenomena of the Baie de 

 ChaK'ur Region," * I described the glaciation of that district, so 

 far as it came under my notice, and also treated of the distribu- 

 tion of the till or glacial drift and the kame deposits within the 

 same area. I now purpose bringing before you some fjicts relat- 

 ing to the stratified marine clays and sands which form a series 

 of deposits skirting that body of water and the estuaries con- 

 nected with it, and shall also refer briefly to the recent forma- 

 tions and the evidences of a subsidence of the land in the 

 northern part of the Province. But first I shall advert to some 

 additional observatiorjs made during the past summer on drift 

 phenomena, chiefly in the di.strict referred to, as tending t© 

 confirnj the conclusions arrived at in my previous paper, and 

 shall note the localities where striae, till, etc., were met with for 

 the first time. 



GLACIAL STRi^. 



On McPherson's farm, Charlo River, ledges of trap rock were 

 seen, finely striated and rounded on the west side; direction of 

 striae east and west, referring them to the true meridian to 

 which all the bearings given in this paper are reduced. 



* Canadian Naturalist, Montreal, Vol. X.; No. ] . 

 Vol. X. N No. *. 



