Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
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new Blaspm conglomerate & flat thins. cliff say is the definition. Ignous material Crassly crystalline red material. Broad a red mud on contact line. Large boulders further to north of contact. Contact a step one are irregular jagged. See photographs. The great mass of our Blaspm conglomerate seen in this cliff has come from the igneous mountains against which the conglomerate rests. The bedding is irregular with lenses of fire material. The Cliff stands of 100 or more full height almost as a single bed. Whereon bedding is shown it cannot be traced far laterally. The carbonaceous shales here at Spicen Cove reminds much of that at Joggins. As we have been descending in the strata all the day, it is probable that these beds are either on the top of 4 or are in Dr 3 of Logan. They have thin beds of coal, Fletcher states of 11-9 inches, but I would not say more than a few inches. Known carbonaceous beds we did not see in the Joggins area except in 4 and 3. As there is or smud of these dark shales, 75 foot or once, seem inclined to regard them as in either 3 or 4. From Fridays work it is clear that we con- tinuously descended in the section and attained