Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 78
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Transcription
Apple River July 15th 1912 Monday. A very foggy morning but we started out Smith to see the section. At the north end of the Pudsey Point Cave came upon greenish shales only irregularly overlain by a very course conglomerate. The contact is as follows: conglomerate Conglomerate Sandstone Green Shales 100 feet Beach Course sandstone conglomerate. As we proceed towards Pudsey Point it is seen that all of the strata are of the course somewhat reddish and in places greenish course conglomerate with short lenses of greenish shales and sandstones. The bowlders are more rounded here than those seen yesterday at Spicer's Cave but are of the same character here as there. The dip is regular all the way to the Point. Fletcher's section is worth noting as a record of the sequence of deposition, for it is a conglomerate gone with the other finer grained tills as local lenses. The thickness cannot be calculated by noting the dip and measuring on a map the area of these conglomerates.