Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 35
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Transcription
"Family In the afternoon walked out east in the Halifax turn-pike to where it and the D. & R. R. are almost in contact just as the drillers station with one another. Here may be seen the thin bedded limestone of the Ordovica portlei zone with which are associated the white layers abounding in Lepidoclitia carinaria, less than five feet down from where Productids like those in the Crum. Dip 15 1/2° N., strike due east and west. Portally 10 feet of beds are seen here beneath the Or. portlei beds. The small Productids occur in the lower, This locality was noted by Fletcher on his map as with a dip of 17°. Just opposite the road and the railway station is a small cave road one-tel quarry in the Arvon limestone. Phacotonia globosa occurs here. Ten feet of beds are exposed. There is a slight anticline here with the steeper side to the north, but the difference is not great. About one-quarter mile east are the large bit and abandoned drillers gypsum quarries. Saw no limestone guarry here but along one of the walls occurs a soft somewhat diing material out of which has been leached what appears to have been precipitated gypsum leaving the soft stone say @aramous.