Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1912
Page 93
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Detail from the gypsum bed south wall. Measurements are uncertain: Some distinction here, also correct. gypsum 10 feet [illegible] Brick red shales Pink. 50 feet [illegible] shale Red clay Grey shale 3-20 feet Green stone Orange limestone Bauxite li Amber shale Conglomerate Red sandstone Grey stone Brick red shales Thickens upwards if 2000 feet. Shore concluded for the present to draw the top of the Windsor at the top of the fine grained laminated red cross- cledded sometimes at the top of the brick-red sandy shales. The following section is on the north link of the anticline south (= Standbridge) of the small cave well seen this morning:- S -- N. origin of anticlue [illegible] 3 feet 4-6 feet and left and Brick red sandy shales. 9 feet thicken down to gypsum bed, Fine grained Green-red conglomerate in. 12 feet Sandy lamin. finely red laminated red stone Laminated red stone Greyish sandy shales full of piece of the Windsor red shale 1-4 feet Coarse greenish lss. Quartz are fossilized shells. 10 feet Windsor series No 8. [illegible] series No 7. -- N. This bedded sand and greenish sand red. 10 feet, Shore bedded coarse Greenish Sandstone 40 feet Red sandy and laminated red shales with the top of red Sandstone. at about 100 feet. -- N. Red thin bedded shales ss. 2 feet [illegible] red 16 inches, Same as before 16 feet Red Shales 5 feet Red thin bedded fine grained ss. 20 feet Sima or 4 feet Red sh. 10 feet Continued are