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Joggins. Monday July 28 1913.
Left Maecan at 8.30 G.M. and spent
the day in the Joggins shone examining the
Coal Measures.
He saw probably more than a dozen good
sized Seijellaria trees varying in diameter
between one and two feet, and in length up to
18 feet. All of these were rooted in greenish
Triassic Shales and were embedded in part
in Shales but once often in sandstone. At least
two of them showed plainly that the trunk
terminated in Seijmaria roots.
Calamites standing vertically are far more
common and in one sandstone within one
hundred feet I counted at least 25 others Prof.
Stolley said he saw more than 50. Truly ~
Calamite heap. These forms are once apt to
be noted and embedded in sandstone than
in shale.
Forest after forest are here embedded in
the detrital material. In one cliff one