Field Notebook: Nova Scotia 1914
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the arkoses rounded flat masses of green shales pieces of some round hard torn off are rolled into the arkoses. All in all it gives one the idea of stream action rather than sea wave as- sorting. Rearly there are small accumulations of quartz pebbles in size from 1 to 2 1/2 inches. The red clays are brown or little in their colour, hare much muscovite and sand and have a hardy fracture. In places are very irregular deposits decoral deposition we also saw here and there rootlets more angular than vertical in position. are more local and The Haarl shales are crasser and are associated with the arkoses as if they formed in local pools during the intervals between the forests. The Haar shale in depth to plant material and muscovite. The arkoses have at times just masses of red shale including, masses torn up by the stream and cut into leaving beds 5 to 75 feet dry standing out off in each end by the arkoses. One sees no evidence of logs in the arkose but occasionally in the clay shales there are small pieces of Lepidodendron.