. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 76 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM THE GASPE SANDSTONES To Sir William Logan we again turn for the fullest account of the extensive series of deposits which he embraced under this name. The greater part of Gaspe county has been regarded as covered by these beds folded into anticlines and synclines presumably conforming with the lime- stones beneath. We are not certain of any erosion interval between the two. The contact line at Little Gaspe cove is a practical conformity, its variation therefrom being nothing in excess of the slight beach angle o
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 76 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM THE GASPE SANDSTONES To Sir William Logan we again turn for the fullest account of the extensive series of deposits which he embraced under this name. The greater part of Gaspe county has been regarded as covered by these beds folded into anticlines and synclines presumably conforming with the lime- stones beneath. We are not certain of any erosion interval between the two. The contact line at Little Gaspe cove is a practical conformity, its variation therefrom being nothing in excess of the slight beach angle of sands against a shore ; but the change is quite abrupt, the upper layer of the limestone only showing some sandy content. The interior of Gaspe county is a heavily wooded, tenantless domain, still a place of trails and portages, as little reduced to the pursuits and demands of civilization as the interior of Patagonia. But moun- tains of the same type as those further inland though of gentler expression are those which circle the Gaspe basin. Here, with- drawn from the fierce play of the gulf storms, the softer and rounder outlines prevail. The Northwest and Southwest arms, continuinor into the Dartmouth and York rivers, run back along ancient depressions or troughs in the folded rocks. Gaspe village is at the axilla of these arms. If the traveler will let his rambles lead him around the crest of Cape O'Hara and down the raised sea beach below St. Albert's church he may observe the sandstone foundations of Gaspe mountain sloping at a steep angle toward the north and may follow them for a long distance up the Dartmouth river, to the volcanic dike at L'Anse au Cousins and beyond, always at this inclination. Across the Northwest. of Grande Greve limestone and Gaspe sandstone at Little Gaspe. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may no
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