Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 77
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between the green schist and the hard crystalline is- news rock. Where it lies upon the schists the conglomerate is made of this schist, the pieces lie delta shaped, and are as angular as those now breaking out of the schist, in size the pieces are all the way up to 8 inches across. It's the material riddled down the hill sides, where the brown marks are hard grains rocks then the conglomerates consist of this same material. We then drive to Spicer Cove and saw the New Glasgow conglomerate that Fletcher states is 871 feet thick. This thickness has been determined by an out cropping. It's a brick-red vertical wall of conglomerate with boulders up to one foot across. None of the pebbles and boulders show much order and as a rule have the character of the material seen at Squally Point upon which the conglomerate rests, this conglomerate dips to the north as maybe seen in a long distance view but close inspection is not so readily seen. The grains of finer material are of short extent and all is bound together by a deep red tough mud.