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Truro Tuesday July 22-1913
Laid over here all night.
First walked out to Victoria Park on the
other side of Truro. Here I again saw the Union
-Tacanie contact seen last year.
Are then went to Salmon Diding 6 1/2 miles
East of Truro. Here a splendid contact between
the Union and Tacanie is to be seen
(a thin conglomerate at one.)
Tacanie Red shales
Red shales
West
Union.
East
Salmon River
P.R. Haycock of Stiprille has found some
some Estheria he thinks only the Tacanie, above
the basle conglomerate. Asked him to send
some or loan to Miss Talbert, he said he
would try to collect some.
Union station is 9 miles east of Truro. The type
locality of the Union formation, a series of bricks
red shales with grey to yellow silt sandstone.