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Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada (1912)

Parks, William A. (William Arthur), 1868-1936, Canada. Mines Branch (1901-1936) · Ottawa : Dept. of Mines, Mines Branch · leaf 62

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roduced into solution cavities between thestrata by the waves of the lake (Plate IV). The subdivisions of the strata as given above is economic rather thanstratigraphic, for little difference is to be observed in the stone throughoutthe whole exposure other than a variation in the thickness of the… … > cr 37 average stone shows a light grey base with yellowish mottlings; it resemblesthe thin stone from Punk and Deer islands, Dog head, Bull head and manyother points along the coast.^ In working the quarry, these upper beds are rejected. The second series of beds (1017) presents a mottled…

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