Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
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in the hood Lilurian section. Beneath the diabase lies the Brandon conglomerate, strongly dure at the stream level about 4 feet. This conglomerate is a dark of the Cardigan series and Cumbrian maroon with flat pebbles, large dimensions up to 3 inches here (but elsewhere of to 1 to 6 inches), fairly well rounded and lying are on their flat sides and flat onto the bedding. This into stream deposit into a track shingle. On this conglomerate lies the diabase which to one seems to be an extensive for it lies regularly upon the bedding of the conglomerate, has its cliff, and the basal beds are vesicular and quite so. The orifice are small from 1/4 to 3/8 inch on the average. About 20 feet higher is a another more decided vesicular zone. Further examination shows that it is un- mistakably a flow and not an intrusion. a sheet Beyond is a flow and like the previous one. Over the sea shore one sees the upper foot. Here it is and calcite a breccia fully vesicles filled with quartz Then comes a considerable thickness of Brandon