Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
Page 13
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"Graptolites and Corynides. Almost at the "top of the exposure are for the layer 10" of Graptolites. These two groups may be 20- fut apart but hardly more. "The hackisporas (orthids) come from str" 15 fut below the upper Graptolite bed. They dr and occur in calcium nodules but are always changed to limy spote. St. John, Tuesday May 19-1914 At the Cambrian locality on Juley strat. Here at the base are a prupt cliffs of a greenist- White Trachyte) igneous material. All along this side of St. John this rock makes cliffs and to the south the land descents into the Cambrian valley and the rises into the Upper Cambrian overtones up. Above the Trachyte come in thin red dull greenist ory fine grains on calcium sandstone without fossil; 1 120 fut in thickness. This is the Etchomenian. (see page to left)