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is about 200 feet to the north of the bridge and then the southeastern 
limb of the anticline continues southeast along the shore. Here the 
following ascending section was measured: 
Feet 
Knobbly limestone from apex of arch to coral reef 35 
Coral reef, mainly of Eridophyllum. Dip 30 degrees toward the southeast.. 16 
Limestones rising in dip to vertical strata 26 
Knobbly, thick-bedded limestones with corals 94 
Thick-bedded limestones 22 
Coral reef limestone 16 
Thin-bedded limestones with corals 7 
Thick-bedded limestones that are more or less coral reefs 30 
Regularly bedded limestones 15 
Knobbly limestones with the dip overturned 10 degrees. Strike north 40 
degrees east. 24 
Rest of section hidden by Pleistocene material 
Total of section 285 
There is another good exposure of these Stricklandinia limestones 
just south of Clemville, striking east and west across Little Port Daniel 
river. Here the strike of the northern limb of the syncline is north 60 
degrees to 70 degrees east, dip 65 degrees north; they are cut through 
by the river, and the eastern terminus of the ridge is seen three-fourths 
of a mile east of the river in a bold escarpment facing the western side of the 
large barrachois and about one mile to the north of Port Daniel Centre. 
A fine section is also exposed in the gorge of Little Port Daniel river, but 
although it was traversed, no attempt was made to study the details 
of the various zones, because of the inaccessibility of the place and the 
lack of weathered-out fossils. At least 150 feet of the knobbly limestones 
are shown here above the sandstones previously described, and on the 
crest of the ridge at least 175 feet of them can be seen; their total thickness 
appears to be over 300 feet, and the upper 175 feet is less knobbly, more 
dense, and less fossiliferous, so far as accessible specimens are concerned, 
than elsewhere. Continuing downstream there are nearly continuous 
exposures of the higher red-weathering Gascons sandstones, but the dip 
soon lets down from 65 degrees north to about 25 degrees north. 
A readily accessible place to collect La Vieille fossils, chiefly corals, 
is beneath the north-going road along the southwestern side of the Port 
Daniel barrachois. The exposure of the knobbly limestones is here very 
limited indeed, but since they lie so near the surface, the ground waters 
have decomposed the shales and loosened the corals and other fossils so 
that they wash out upon the beach of the barrachois. In addition to 
twenty-five species of corals, Orthis flabellites, Rhipidomella uberis, Leptae- 
nisca, Schuchertella subplana, Stricklandinia gaspiensis, Rhynchotreta 
cuneata americana, Huronia , Illaenus grandist, Bronteus , etc., were 
obtained. 
It should be stated here that the Stricklandinia limestones do not 
weather pinkish, and since they have almost no crinoidal matter, they are 
easily distinguished from the quarried upper and lower pink limestones 
of the West Point formation, which are always replete with Crotalocrinus 
columnals. Between these two zones of pink limestones of the West 
Point formation there are thick zones of knobbly limestones, but since 
the latter are interbedded with shales and the whole series weathers red, 
these characters, and their higher position, will readily distinguish them 
from the La Vieille formation. 
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