Field Notebook: Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, New York 1913
Page 83
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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