Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
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Transcription
After passing the Triassic on the west end of Charles Head one comes upm the crushed and rolled (falls upon hills) area making the entire front of the head. Red and green shales, sandstone, rock cut macous limestones, and great masses of gypsum lie upon one another in the greater confusion. The erosion relief of this stuff is more fantastic and is unlike anything I have ever seen. Evidently it is made up of bits of the "Devonian" and Carbon series are rolled together in more tangled mass. The color effects here are fine. Roundin Charles Head one again comes upon the trap but this time at sea level. It swallows nearly all of the little errc back of the head but not all for the most northerly part is again Triassic sand- stone. The latter dips again to the north so that all of the Triassic must be faulted in here. If the dip of the Triassic were to the south one could say that it have been formed on the slopes of the Orte- guild. On front of Charles Head beyond the crushed zone of Paleogries occurs isolated masses of the trap. It is a confused mass as if in a near or date and is greatly crushed and contorted.