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The strata along the above mentioned street from just 

 beyond the church northward to the end of the road, dip 

 in general to the southeast at angles varying between 50 

 and 70 ; that is, if the strata be not overturned, they are 

 displayed in descending order, if traversed in a northerly 

 direction. The first exposures consist of hard, light grey 

 sandstone in beds varying in thickness from 6 to 18 inches 

 (15 cm. to 45 cm.). Beyond this the outcrops consist 

 chiefly of red, green and dark shales, the red varieties 

 predominating. In places the colours rapidly alternate in 

 thin bands, in other places the colour bands are several 

 yards or more wide. Towards the end of the street, 

 where it joins the road leading along the river to the high- 

 way bridge, the strata are plicated, perhaps having been 

 involved in a fault zone. 



The banded shales are exposed from the end of the street 

 to the railway and there form a long rock cutting. The 

 strata in the railway rock cutting consist of red, green and 

 dark shales with occasional thin beds of sandstone dipping 

 to the southeast at angles varying from 45 to 65 . At 

 two points in the cutting occurs calcareous conglomerate 

 holding pebbles of limestone. At one place, the conglo- 

 merate forms a thin, lense-like body, in the other it forms 

 a bed 3 inches (8 cm.) thick. A somewhat similar conglo- 

 merate occurs on the west bank of the river opposite the 

 railway station, where the bed is about 4 inches (10 cm.) 

 thick and is associated with dark and red shales. A 

 similar conglomerate outcrops along the railway, south of 

 the station. The following note regarding certain fossils 

 occurring in these conglomerates has been furnished by 

 Dr. Percy E. Raymond. 



Note on fossils at Riviere du Loup, Que. By P. E. 

 Raymond. — "Interbedded with the red and green shales 

 at Riviere du Loup are thin layers of conglomerate, the 

 pebbles of which are largely of a grey limestone. Fossils 

 may be found in the pebbles in at least two localities, one 

 on the west bank of the river about 100 feet (30 m.) south 

 of the highway bridge, and the other on the west side of 

 the railroad tracks just south of the engine house. The 

 fossiliferous pebbles are very small, and the fossils frag- 

 mentary and unsatisfactory. Pieces of two Orthoids 

 one of them with simple plications, are common at both 

 localities, as are also fragments of the stems of some Pel- 

 matozoan, more probably a crinoid than a cystid. The 



