Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 79
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
In a number of places in the shale one saw an abundance of Stigmaria roots and at least a dozen critical small trees of 6-4 inch across. Some are Calo- mites, then Lepidaria, and probably also Cordaites for the leaves of C. are abundant. This evidence is only positive that these plants grew in the muddy swampy places while the streams close by were bringing in sand and conglomerates. We see our Charadites, Asterocarpa or Heterophis tree. As one gets around Pudsey Point and into lower beds one so mainly along the strike and see regularly bedded sandy shales, sandstones with thin and irregular bits of the conglomerate. Plant evidence is always at hand in these firm paired strata but little is recognizable beyond Cordaites leaves. Still further southward and into lower beds the conglomerates are firmer and the beds once sandstones cleared from with angular granite pebbles and finally red sandstones with the granite pebbles and some green- ish quartzite. These red sandstones occur on the rounder points to the north of Hoxne Cove. In some green sandy shales associated with the above and sandstones Bell found a ripple slab over 10 in. print. The large clods 1 ½ inch across among the ones abundant and ¼ in.