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parison in paleontology and paleogeography is doubtless to be made 

 with the expressions of the Siluric afforded by the sections on 

 Anticosti island and on the Arisaig shore of Nova Scotia. There 

 is nothing in the Siluric sections of Gaspe elsewhere comparable to 

 this, so far as my knowledge extends. 



STRIKING UNCONFORMITY IN PALEOZOIC ROCKS AT LITTLE 



RIVER EAST, GASPE COUNTY 



Little River East lies on the north shore of the Bay Chaleur just as 

 it opens into the gulf. It is a small fishing hamlet about six miles 

 west of Grand River. The unconformity here is of a sort that is 

 general throughout the Gaspe peninsula where the upturned Siluric 

 comes in direct contact with the Devono-Carbonic, but at this 

 exposure it is so notable for its color contrasts as to attract attention 

 of the traveler when steamer or sail happens to pass close enough 

 inshore to bring it into clear view. The Little River is bounded on 

 the west by a rock cliff reaching one hundred rods along the shore, 

 and the base of the cliff is made up of light gray sharply stratified 

 Siluric (Siluric-Ordovicic) thin limestones and hard shales standing 

 at an almost vertical angle or dipping steeply toward the southwest : 

 in this respect in conformity with the general attitude of the older 

 paleozoics on all this coast. Over the very irregular edges of these 

 lower beds lie the horizontal heavy-bedded masses of deep red 

 Bonaventure conglomerate and sandstone, which has settled into all 

 the surface irregularities of the gray Silurics. The section teaches 

 again the well-known lesson of the exposure today of the Siluric 

 rocks of this southerly Gaspe region during at least all the period 

 of the early Devonic and its submergence in later Devonic to receive 

 the rough water or continental deposits of the Bonaventure stage. . 



