Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Wednesday June 29-1910. Arondale, Hora Sertis. While waiting for a train at New Glasgow walked East of the town about 1/2 mile and in small stream we saw an outcrop of grey bidded coarse sandstone, above it dull shale. In the stream bed there is much black shale with an abundance of Spirorhis, Ostracoda and fish scales. There is also much evidence of plant re- main but little that is recognisable. Scoura by Stigmaria are small fern leaves and the leaf of Cordaites? Have taken some of these fossils. Did not see a trace of a strictly marine animal. The evidence is all in favor for continental deposits. Left New Glasgow at 12.40 and met Williams at Onegmick and together we then proceeded to Arondale to see the Siluria. At 2 P.M. we started East along the International Railway but seeing nothing more than drift shatter of are descended into the valley Barnes River and on the opposite side above of Fletchers Cliff (=150°) localities are saw a good exposure of the lower part of the Arisaig series. We found one Amphiothena Demispherica and fragment of which appeared to be either Stroph. Odonta or Orthothela. The horizon evidently is the Arisaig formation and apparently in the lower part of the upper Green Slate. Farther off on stream Towhful saw other outcrops of the Arisaig but he saw no fossils.