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which the Grande Greve limestones lie on the northern more gprad- 

 ually sloping arm and the Perce rock on the southern erect arm. 

 With this reconstruction, the massive of Cap Blanc represents the 

 faulted downthrown crest of the Perce fold, while lesser anticlines 

 indicated by the government geologists as those of Pointe St Peter, 

 Tar point, Cape Haldimand, developed further back from the coast, 

 ride on the surface of this synclinorium. 



Bonaventure cono-lomerate at summit of Mt Ste Anne 



Immense time was necessary for the destruction of these old folds 

 before the ragged country was carried down beneath the water level 

 for the deposition of the red conglomerates and sandstones. 



Red sandstones, conglomerates and limestones 

 The country is so completely sheeted with these horizontal deposits 

 that they may be studied at numerous places away from the lime- 

 stone cliffs, but nowhere in their continuity so well as along the slopes 

 of Mt Ste Anne. Let us however, first take note of the opinions 

 which have been expressed by Logan and Ells concerning these 



