Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 83
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Joggins July 16-1912 Tuesday. Loking at 3.30 A.M. this morning at Apple Rim till the mail wagon came to Joggins. Here we arrived at 10 A.M. Leemans Brook At 11.30 A.M. drove out to Mill Cove or, and then walked to Black Point at the north turn end of the Joggins area. Here near a series of conoe sandstones predominan- tly red in color, but there are also greenish beds, all of which have widely distributed troughs of small rounded pebbles of vein quartz, some granite and quartzites, but the majority of the vein quartz. Some of these pebbles range around one 1/2 inch. There is known me some of red conglomerate about 3 feet thick in which the red pebbles range up to 2 inches across. These harder beds are interbedded with zones of high-red shales. Some of the beds show evidence of plant remains but would not make out even the general (see later remarks). The sandstones are decidedly cross bedded and in quick troughs as seen about Apple Rim in Area 2. Ripples are also plentiful, some seem crossing, and we layen in rain pitted. Many layers of the ss. have interbedded shale conglomerate, graded of shale layers. There is no gypsum here, nor a trace of limestone, or even limonite pebbles.