Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
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the stream Cascoedia. The first stopping place is at Carleton at the foot of Fracadiack Mts. It has all the points to make it a summer resort. Our next stop in Maria on the lofty mountains about. Then New Richmond. After leaving New Richmond (m) = 5 miles at 20 minx one sees an upheaved section for more than one mile of greenist and red beds followed by dolerite followed by red beds dipping about 30° . The dolerite is "Black Cope" and the red Devonian rocks "Red Cope". The greenist and red beds must be the Heldeburian sections according to my note it seems like the Nejawan. The red beds to the N.E. of Red Cope have a dip of about 30° and then are near horizontal for a mile, then a low beach where the strata rise a little towards Coplin. This should be a fine place to examine the strata and especially about Black Cope. The best place to study these rocks north from Coplin. Next stop Coplin. For 21/3 miles more to the N.E. the red beds are seen in the sea cliffs. Red beds come in as the