Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
Page 15
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
"Then comes in a white coarse dear bedded sometime about 30-ft thick. This somewhat coarsely bedded. This coarser at the bottom and finer grained at the top and more even bedded. The upper surface appears to be uneven to the extent of 2 feet. This seems to be the structural line of the Acadian Cambria. On the latter refers, the green sandy shales said to be the Patterinus zone, about 65 ft. This is sandy shales once sandy than shales. In the Middle Cambrian fossil from fine shales and green fine grained sandstone with an abundance of print in my collection for here. Of these about 20 feet referred to others. All these give off the white quartzite become more and more fine grained to sands at the top, where the prints abound in grams. About 1/4 mile further east we are in the public park where the contact between the trachyte and the Etchemian can be clearly seen. The basal 8 feet of the Etchemian is an aulose dull red in color, any coarse in material with grains