Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 139
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structure : (A later movement resulting in a huddle). Black Cafe Oolite. Boveavertine conglomerate. Nearly horizontal are the way to Boreavertine The following is a rough draft of the succession of the rocks without relation to thickness. The section diagnostic is continuous for at least 1/2 miles. The dip varies between 40 and 70 degrees and less than one half of the beds are about half across the strike while the further half is almost transverse to the strike. The thickness therefore peaks. Bying at the base the final succession is as follows : (From Little Caspedia to Black Rock.) A series of thin bedded finely limestone and shales with thick landinia and corals. Probably 100 two feet thick. Fossils Lot 1. A blue shale series weathering to brick red, has a few broods. Probably less than 100 feet. Fossils Lot 2, A lime shale weathering black and red with some