Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 41
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the Atlantic and the present Bay of Fundy thoroughly established. The difference in level of the Bay of Fundy may have been caused by local flexing during the Ice Period forcing the tides into Mines Basin at higher levels. As other bays were formed more head water was required lowering the water in Mines Basin. South Mt. back of Wolfville has the strata dipping to the north-west about 20 to 30 degrees. The village is on Ordovician strata while to the north comes in the Triassic. Beneath the Ordovician are very much compressed shales of a Hurick-type shales with many bands of a gellwood shale. These are probably Ordovician. [illegible] Over Mt. Bish at Kent Lodge, Instructor with Keller at Yale.