Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 91
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Still vertical when last seen. Some of the shale beds are red disturbed but in general the dip is about vertical. As I pro- ced along these low cliffs, I see nearly 800 feet or more of brick red shales, sometimes all standing vertical, softly with the same strike to the gypsfum roof in the next southward going 1/3 mile nothing is seen up to the roof. Partially the brick red shales of cliv.8 are in view. On the north side of the roof considerable gypsum sticks out resting on brick red shales. The dip and strike are totally different. The dip is steeply to the southeast at least 45° The gypsum is therefore the lower beds seen of the Winton on the north side of the roof series. Over it follows brick red shales with gnomes of exposure nodular limestone that have red shales snuffed around the modules. known points less than 300 feet. Bill tells me that it is in this limestone that he saw at lowy tide the Winton nautili, and tirelores. These are the lowest strata to be seen on this side of the peninsula. Over them lie a very great tickness (perhaps 3/4 of a mile across the strike of strata) dipping irregularly at about 30 to 35 degrees) of brick red shales in which I saw but a single bed of sandstone less than 2 feet thick. Then come in more and more of finally at the point Cape Marinspoun =transition zone sandstones with red shales interbudded and then the regular Chellstone grit. I could see not suddenly break in sedimentation here no more than I did at the northern end of the anticline near the oaw oerill.