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La Vieille Limestone. West of the sandstones just described follows 
a thick series of more or less muddy limestones that become more and 
more knobbly upward and finally pass into almost pure limestones. These 
strata Logan (1863) described as follows: 
“(2) Greenish, calcareous shale, including a few beds of yellow-weathering limestone, 
with many nodules of the same, ana holding many fossils, 200 feet. 
“There is here a break in the succession, occasioned by a fault, which creates an 
interval of great confusion. The cliff shows many of the details of the disturbance. . . 
It appears probable that there is a downthrow to the west”. 1 
The throw appears to be less than 100 feet. 
The next division of Logan’s section is “(3) Grey, hard limestone, 
50 feet”, which also belongs to the La Vieille formation. The total thick- 
ness for this formation as determined by Logan is, therefore, 390 feet, 
whereas our thickness is about 450 feet. 
In Logan’s time there was no railway in the Gaspe country, but 
now the difficulties of the greatly twisted strata of the La Vieille fault 
at the seashore may be avoided by studying the series as exposed along the 
railway cuts. These cuts are less than 2 miles east of the Catholic church 
of Gascons, and show the following section: 
Knobbly and very muddy greenish limestones well seen along the 
railway, and along the seashore where at least 150 feet of the thickness 
is not affected by the fault. Along the railway, however, the whole of 
the Stricklandinia limestones are seen to best advantage, and here they 
become more calcareous and fossiliferous upward. The average dip is 
25 degrees toward the southwest. The cuts along the railway have a 
length of about 700 feet, and as the average dip is 25 degrees, the actual 
thickness of the limestones is about 285 feet. These limestones are rich 
in fossils and more can be had in this cut from the lower 150 feet than from 
any other place in the Port Daniel-Gascons district. It was, in fact, 
from these lower strata that the type specimen of Stricklandinia gaspiensis 
was obtained. Fine corals are common here. Near the mid-depth of 
these limestones occur, besides the species mentioned, Undnulus (same 
at Little Port Daniel river), Rhynchotreta cuneata americana, large Actinoceras 
siphuncles ( Huronia ), and Strombodes pentagonus . 2 
The Stricklandinia limestones are again well shown about the Catholic 
church of St. Georges de Port Daniel, in the adjacent railway cut, and 
especially well along the beach below the wagon road. The western end 
of the railway cut for about 135 feet has the limestones undulating and 
rising slowly eastward to the crest of an anticline. The eastern part 
of the cut, with a length of about 185 feet, has the strata standing vertical 
to about 13 degrees overturned. These limestones strike north 30 degrees 
east and make a high ridge (the east Port Daniel ridge) that continues 
the height of the land to the east of the barrachois, and strikes northeast 
for about 2 miles. 
Nearly the whole of these dark blue Stricklandinia limestones are 
best exposed along the beach a little to the north of the railway bridge 
near St. George’s church. The centre of the arch at the back of the beach 
1 “Geology of Canada, 1863", p. 443. 
* "Geology of Canada, 1863”, fig. 308, p. 305. 
