Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
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leading in districts, nearly hanged with local undulations. At a time not so long ago geologically the Bay of Fundy stood at least 50-100 feet higher than now for the great grass meadows beneath in by dikes are the level of our former flood plain. These grass meadows are known at the lower levels or at Plimidan may be seen another five or ten feet higher. Plimidan Cape. Form high line high tide grass meadows at dolphric. The Permian of South Ark dips about 15° or deeper towards Mines Basin. As there in Permian in M.B. it seems that the Triassic was laid down in a synclinal valley and once that the Triassic extended across from M.B. to the top of South Ark. After Triassic times it suffered erosion by (lyocene) erosion and later these rolling waves invaded by