Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 7
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"is occupied by the trap. At the bridge are seen large ledges of argy [illegible] the dubris of the traps. These are the basal beds of the Devonian. Have no stratification. Can be seen behind the town in a ridge. Campbelltown is built on the trap. Looks stratified. Along the river front of the town from the steamboat way westward occur the Devonian rocks. "Above the station at Campbell- town hard thick-bedded sandstone, intersected by thin dykes of trap, con-tains abundance [abundance] of fossil plants" Psilophyton 2of., Lycopsides and Cordaites. "1800 paces west of the Royal Hotel ledges of hard grey limestone are largely made up of comminuted fossils."