Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 71
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Joggins July 13 - 1912 Saturday. Left Joggins by buggy at 8 A.M. to drive To Shulie where we will crawl along the coast to Sand River, left to Shulie River at 10 A.M. and found the tide in at its highest, had to wait for the tide to fall before we could go along the shore. We started out at 12.30 after dinner. Near the front of Shulie River we came upon a vertical tree, core in the center with part of the earthy filled with dirt. It is noted in the blue sketch below and we can follow the early strata of the center of the trunk, into this blue hole for one foot or more. These beds are in Fletchers Tilmont Permians. See sketch on opposite page. About half way out of Shulie River we distinctly see the dips at a low angle dipping to the north. We are now in the southern limit of the syncline. About 10 miles south of Fall Brook there is a little fault on a day of about 3 feet. At Fifty-gallon Brook we came again upon one of the course conglomerates. Here the pebbles are larger than any we have so far seen. Mostly dark quartzites and in size up to 4 inches. Fairly well rounded but not completely rounded. Up to this brook it is evident that we are turning downward in the purple and red sh., and so, seen yester- day of the Flat Brook.