Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
Page 39
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Transcription
"and saw the Loron Gindon conglomerate. There it is like that seen out of Stonehenge Brook, a dark maroon pebble conglomerate, and piece with desert drifts pattern. This pattern is in all the pieces and in of the color of the firm finding matrix. The pebbles are full sign up to 8 inches or some one foot across. In other places the conglomerate takes on the color of the Triassic sandstone a light red and then the pebbles are in the main of the opolylite. I first saw the conglomerate where the Carway road crosses the International Railway. Probably 1000 feet or more down from greatly I came across a gypsum bed 50 foot or more foot thick. It was covered by either a red clay or a fine red conglomerate. I saw it across a small stream inside the railway and could not get near to it. As the Loron is conglomeratic in or many places and is always there, this evidence in- dicates that the country was mountainous filling in the valleys below. The climate was arid"