Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
Page 17
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"No specimens "Whirls 1 pebble of 2 or 3 inches across. These pebbles are not well rounded and are of hard material usually a red granite. Then there are pieces of red jasper in some, sometimes red shale pieces, quartzites and schists. The variety is considerable but rarely are any of the pieces well rounded. The whole matters down rather easily into a coarse sand. A little further south the white quartzite of Lulley strus is seen to come within 15 feet of the trachyte cutting out nearly at the Etchavernies. Portergrise. The dolomite is practically recrystallized. Below it is a thick zone of quartzite also much recrystallized. Both are cut by granites and other igneous rocks. Left at 12.40 for Truro then we arrived at 8.20. Staying at the Leasant Hotel.