Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 37
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Transcription
Dolforlle Sunday July 23. left London started out at 9 A.M in a carriage to Cape Blomidon, 21 miles out. One has to make a wide detour to the west to get over the various estuaries which makes the distance to Blomidon or far. The range of hills to the south of Dolf- ville is called South Mt. while that repre- sented by Blomidon is called North Mt. The latter has an attitude above low tide of 70 feet. and is composed of red clays and trap of Triassic age. All in Triassic from near the Dolforlle meadows to far beyond Blomidon run into Ors Brunswick. It seems to lie in a syncline. At Blomidon in the trap are found givels lined with amygdala, These are formed in the amygdulose. In the red clays are rarely then seams of gypsum. The red flood of the tides is largely due to the soft red Triassic clays. This a sandy mud- structure without trace of organic remains. The