Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 37
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Transcription
"Higher a later decomposition was more perfect as the feldspars are practically absent and the shore was somewhat further away. When the Creceryathinae appeared the shore was not very far away for in these beds there are grains with considerable sand. In the help of however the material is mainly a limestone but locally seems to be somewhat magnesian. "The size of grain of the conglomerate and sandstone is about the same throughout. Cross bedding occurs at all levels. The marked difference however is that the basal beds have much red feld- spar and dark mica (fertilite). For this reason these lower beds are red in the cliffs. Higher up the feldspar is absent or practically so and therefore the heavily bedded conglomerate just beneath the Creceryathinae are light pink to whitish. In those upper sandstones the conglomerate grains are more local, the pebbles are fairly well rounded and average a 1/4 inch in diameter. "In the river valley back of Blanc D'Avon are exposed masses of granite on both sides of the river. The altitude above the sea is the same as the mass upon which the JST Bros Establishment is built. I judge these are about 30 feet above sea level. The masses higher up the streams are the base upon which the Cambrian was laid but all of the latter has been eroded off here. A little distance beyond the Cambrian is exposed and it is the auric red conglomerate with an abundance of feld- spar,