Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
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conformata. The kettle just above the second trap is made of of the diabase coming down into material fall zone. Finally to the north we see a third flow. Once again the base is highly vesicular and lies fairly roof upon the Drakon conform- ata. All of this evidence goes to show that this country was deformed into mountains during the Devonian, that the topography was rough in the Drakon time and that active volcanoes were abundant during the early Drakon time. All previous workers assumed that the red beds on the sea shore beneath the diabase was the end of the Lilerian section. Making out the extrusive nature of the diabase and that the same flow lies upon the Lilurian, Devonian and Drakon I concluded it would worth while to see if the Lilurian ended as supposed. To my great surprise I saw the Lilurian dipping