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I Coral Measures.
All that we have seen today leads me to believe
that all of the strata on the west side
are of the definitional Yale.
Where did all of this sediment come from? It's
very different from the Pennsylvanian of the Paradox
area. The Orthoquids are too small to have furnished
it. It therefore must have come from the north
and south.
Joggins July 11- Thursday.
A foggy morning with rain during the night.
Drove north to the Brindstone quarry and then traveled
north to Joggins Mines.
Near the base of it there are red shales and red sandstones
and these soon give way to dark greenish and carbonaceous
shales. Near the top of the first carbonaceous layers there
is 3 to 4 inch band of carbonaceous limestone with unrecognizable
planktonic foraminifera and ostracodes. On each side of the
limestone there is from 1 to 3/4 inches of good bituminous
coal. Other carbonaceous shales nearby have an abundance
of the Amnicula kelli, Haiderites, Ostracodes and Spirinthis.
All of these kids are regularly bedded and appear to be...