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Joggins July 17-1912 Wednesday.
A fine day after the storms and tops of the
last two days.
Left Joggins Mines at 10.30 A.M. in Dorches-
ter from where we will drive to Standledge. Arrived
at Dorchester at 1.30, stopping at London until the boat
broke all up on out with.
After dinner walked south 3 1/2 miles and nearly
all the way was on the equivalent of Joggins division
6. It's here a coarse, heavily cross bedded, light grey
sandstone with zones of conglomerate, most of which pebbles
are well rounded being quartz though there are some of
granite and quartzite. As we did not go along the
shore cannot say how much shales are present.
At Dorchester Cape we came upon the contact
between Joggins division 6 and 7. Division 6 ends
dere as above described but as a more decided con-
glomerate and rests sharply on red shales of division
7. The contact is irregular - I do channelled contact -
but no more so than many another sandstone resting
on shales of the same series seen at the Joggins.
At the top of division 7 there are some red
conglomerate that may be the equivalent of 7 at the
Joggins though here the thickness is far greater
than at Dorchester Cape. Intertidally with these