Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
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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