Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
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23 Green shales seen at low tide of Garen. Thickness unknown 24 Grayish-green sandy magnesian limestone in the beds of variable thickness. Ammonal nodular structure, 5 feet 6 inches 25 Greenish-gray platy li. 31 inches 26 Heavy dark grey oolitic - ostrocodan limestone 40 inches sand bands of thin limestone 27 Brick red shales with green layers 37 feet 4 inches. 28 Sandstone yellowish with greens having a little of lime. 10 feet 6 inches thick. 29 Green shales. 4 feet 1 inch. 30 Sandstone like 28, 5 feet 6" 31 Red shales 19 feet. 32 Gypsum, 5 feet. 33 Red shales. At least 20 feet. There may be much more as the gypsum has slid along to N. N E over these shales are of which along the contacts show sticky sides and the thin gypsum bands are minor lenses punched and slickensided. 34 The next gypsum bed of unknown thickness certainly over 40 feet thick.