Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 59
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Limestone cryl. are scarce here and Logan reports but 16 fat. Of sandstone there are 144 fat and of shale 342 fat and all of which is red. Some of this material is a new source from that of the top of 8 and indicates some excessive erosion as one passes up into the section or normal in time. Division 6 of Logan is 3240 fat thick. In the basal 120 fat there are 4 thin thrust limestone interbedded in red shales. Three of these li. are six miles thick and one is 3 miles thick. They are gray hard and contain pyrite, and are regular interbedding as may be seen on the track for 100 yards. Two of them have pct. scales, fernrid and cycloid scales. Otherwise don't see anything. If these are marine limestone they should have marine animals and the rocks do not bear this out. There than 1889 fat consists of greenish- grey sandstone, 25 fat of yellow and 130 fat of red sandstone = 2043 feet of sandstone. Of shales there are 1039 fat and of this 670 are red the rest greenish. Div. 6 is therefore decidedly sandstone, for at the top the sandstone beds and has therefore been called the Millstone grit. Division 6 has a great quantity of comminuted plant remains and local crag streaks but never in regular beds. It gives me clearly the impression