Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 9
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Transcription
Truro, July 21-1912, Sunday, Left Belle and Truro at 10.05 A.M. for Montreal and Toronto on the Ocean Limited. The Triassic extends from south Truro to East Mines at the extreme foot of the rise of the land towards the Cobequids. A very thick conglomerate appears about 5 miles to the north of East Mines that I think does belong to the Triassic. It dips to the north at an angle of about 10°. The pieces are gray coarse, angular and ill assorted but bedding is easily discernable. Evidently much of the material came from the Cobequids after they relevation in later Pennsylvanian times. These conglomerates are not over 2 to 3 miles south of Londonderry. Londonderry may be regarded as at the southern foot of the Cobequids. From here northward the land begins to be more rugged and is underlain by Paleozoic. Reddish shales followed beds by thick formation of trowden conglomerate dipping southward!