Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
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conglomerate and very few continuous beds of red shale. The conglomerates are as coarse as farther north but there are more granite pebbles. The sandstone here as farther north are excessively cross bedded with very short lenses of red shales. On the other side of Sand River the beds again dip to the north. Apple River, July 14-1912 Sunday. After a late breakfast started out in a buggy for Eatonton about 8 miles south of this place to see Fletcher's Devonian. When we got there we soon found the outcrops in the small river, & forced to be a green schist which to me looks like a chloritic schist. It is penetrated by a red or an lilac crystalline leucogranite igneous material. The schists are initially a metamorphosed igneous rock that has undergone very decided pressure. There is nothing of a Devonian character in this schist and it is probably of Pre-Cambrian age. The dip given in the Devonian are planes of schistosity and not of bedding. In the room at Eatonton maybe seen the contact.