Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
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Sandstone 2). Where the shelter-shelter plants are accumu- lated one finds many small clay-crin stems growing and gives the appearance of a conglomerate. Here also many cross beds oral streaks up to one inch thick. This is true for all of the older sandstones seen going south. Thin bedded shaly ms, Piffled and some clevelds See Plate 50 full thin / Predominating green m's, and some reddish b., and more and more forms of clay in nature a modern implication regarding conglomerates. They are interlaminated conglomerates. (= transition bed into Millstone grit) Finally red grms appear between the green sandstones and written a few hundred feet we are again in red-brown-red shales. (= division 8) In one of the green sandstones in the transition zone one sees days and fine Stymania crts across 20 ft. of surfaces. The transition appears to be gradual from the Millstone grit into the red beds of division 8, as a later interpretation. The dip becomes greater from the same angle southward and at Handbridge they are nearly vertical but there is still a dip to the northward. In the top of the red beds one sees here the same if the transition zone circular concretions as seen yesterday 3 1/2 miles south of Rochester. This zone of shale is 50 to 30 ft thick and thereafter red more on conglomeratic sandstones interbedded with thin grms of red shales. There are at least 300 to 400 ft. of these before the section vanishes in low cliffs where the rocks are concealed. A warp? -is the plant root. red shale is south of this point about 1/2 mile. The shapes are