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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12684359115).jpg 398 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY June 16 <br> 6 Additional Notes on the Red Sandstones q/ Nova Scotia <br> By J W Dawson Esq <br> Communicated by Sir C Lyell V P G S <br> ' ' In a paper on the New Red Sandstone of <br> Nova Scotia read before the Society June <br> 1 84 7 in which I endeavoured to separate the <br> / true New Red Sandstones skirting the Bay <br> \ of Fundy from the red beds associated with <br> the gypsiferous series and other members of <br> the Carboniferous system ” after having traced <br> 'I these beds to the mouth of the Shubenacadie <br> -J and again observed their continuation in Corn- <br> § wallis and Horton west of the estuary of the <br> I ' Avon ” I remarked that while the intervening <br> I o county of Hants is occupied chiefly by car- <br> ¢ boniferous deposits there are on its north <br> S ° 23 shore patches of nearly horizontal sandstone <br> i which might belong to the New Red <br> -g rM I had in the past summer an opportunity <br> S 1 1 of examining these beds at Walton Petite <br> ¢Â« and other places and was much gratified by <br> finding that the New Red might be traced as <br> a narrow and occasionally interrupted band <br> from the mouth of the Shubenacadie nearly <br> I to the mouth of the Avon ; thus connecting <br> I as far as possible the distinct patches of New <br> 'W3 Red described in my former paper At some <br> 8 points also I found very distinct coast-sec- <br> 1 tions showing the unconformable superposi- <br> I tion of the New Red on the Lower Carboni- <br> ferous beds A good instance of this occurs <br> I at Petite River see figs 1 2 <br> rt Near the mouth of the river the Lower Car- <br> 's - boniferous formation appears with the same <br> I characters observed at Windsor and on the <br> I I Shubenacadie It includes a large bed of gyp- <br> 2 1 sum extensively quarried for exportation and <br> tl 1 1 a bed of limestone with veins of oxide of man- <br> I g-i ganese apparently the geological equivalent <br> 1 J 8 of the Black Rock limestone on the Shubena- <br> tg § g cadie In the neighbourhood of these beds <br> I ll the softer rocks have been denuded and do <br> Z appear Still nearer the mouth of the <br> «o river however there is a distinct section <br> J - J « showing black shales with calcareous bands <br> dipping at a high angle to the south and un- <br> derlying the beds above-mentioned In a <br> short space these beds become contorted and <br> then dip steeply to the north fig \ f f I <br> Quart Journ Geol Soc vol iv p 50 35461468 109911 51125 Page 398 Text v 8 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461468 1852 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 8 1852 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35461468 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461468 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12684359115 2015-08-26 20 58 48 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1852 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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