Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
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Arisaig, May 23. Saturday. Started out for the upper part of Beectini and the Devonian contact. The Devonian makes the high land due and to the south in the low land undulate by the London series, We then went down One Gras broch and where in the lowest fault in the Devonian. It is a series of red to maroon shales interbedded with thin zones of greenish sandstones. The shales never always have small nodular con- cretions some of which stand vertical to the bedding. These I interpret to be caliche deposits, the sweating dry of the water under a dry climate due to capillarity. Therefore continental deposits, probably on a delta. than the top of the level, within a 1000 feet of the road just in the red shale a fish bone and three hirabres. If those are fresh-water shells it's quite a find. This design is low down in the Devonian series and probably several hundred feet lower than the first bed locality beside the road. Towards the lower part of One Gras broch we came up on this trip sheet, above the even September,