Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 55
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Transcription
"Just before noon we drove back again and at 1 P.M. got out of the car near at Dronning's Core. On the shore we came upon the coarse sandstone conglomerates of Argeus zone 7. The question at once arose do these beds belong to the Drindon? I did not think so and are then parallel with along the shore forming our greenish gray sandstones and shales with limestone conglomerates. These conglomerates occur in the midst of sandstones and ocal is the cementing material of the limestone pellets. These one as a rule sparse, less than one mile across, of different limestones and calcareous shales but usually a gray or light blue. In zone 8 the pieces are very large, and as a rule flat slabs anywhere up to 1/2 miles long and up to 1/2 miles thick. As one proceeds downward into zone 9 more and more red shale, and red sandstone come in but the limestone conglomerates constantly reappear downward until we has passed through 570 feet above the dark bed occurs. Below this then are 1148 feet of red shales and sandstones devoid of these conglomerates. At first I was inclined to see a marked essential unconformity 293 feet beneath the top of zone 8 and photographed it to show the con- tact (see also the photo sketch). As still other lime- stone conglomerates came in for 200 feet more.