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2835
Dolfrille, July 22-05
Spent the morning and afternoon
at two small quarries about two miles
north of Dolfrille on the road to Grand
Pre. The first quarry belongs to Mr.
Harris and shows about ten feet of Black
Shale having Devonian land plants.
The other quarry is on higher level and
shows probably not less than 30 feet. The
horizon of the first quarry is beneath the
seemed. The black shales pass upward into
sandy shales and then into thin reddish
sandstones. The plants from the
black and iron stained shales are from the
lowest horizon of the first quarry while
the sandstones are from the top of second
quarry. Some Psilophyta came from the
shales beneath the sandstone.