Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
Page 65
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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.