. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. â PR. 22G THE CARnONIFEROUS SYSTEM. which they appear only in detached patches, the most western of wljich, on the coast eastward of St John, arc those of Quaco and Gardiner's Creek. On the northern side these beds occupy a broad belt of country, extending along the valleys of the Petitcodiac and Kennebeckasis Rivers, and in part limited on the north-
. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. â PR. 22G THE CARnONIFEROUS SYSTEM. which they appear only in detached patches, the most western of wljich, on the coast eastward of St John, arc those of Quaco and Gardiner's Creek. On the northern side these beds occupy a broad belt of country, extending along the valleys of the Petitcodiac and Kennebeckasis Rivers, and in part limited on the north-west by another raetainorphic ridge, suctching from the great area of such rocks lying on the St John River to the eminence knoAvn as Butternut Ridge. The belt thus limited, and which extends for nearly eighty miles, with a breadth of from sixteen to twenty miles, appears to consist wholly of beds of the three lowest divisions of the Carboniferous period. The Lower Carboniferous Coal measures and their associated conglomerates Bkirt the northern side of the Shcpody range, and are succeeded by the marine limestones and gypsums. These appear to be brought up by an undulation in the middle of the valley at Sussex Vale, and they reappear on the north side of the Kennebeckasis, skirting the exterior of the metamorphic belt of the Kingston series to Butternut Ridge already mentioned. Doubling around the metamorphic promontory near Butteniut Ridge, the Lower Carboniferous outcrop extends in a narrow and somewhat curved band to the west, till it reaches Oromocto Lake and the Maga- guadavic River, near the line of the St Andrew's Railway. It then bends sharply to the nortli-east, and, in so far as known, runs directly, though with many minor curves and detached outliers, to the Bay de Chaleur, skirting the margin of the broad Silurian area of northern New Brunswick. One of tlie most important outliers is that on the Tobiquc River.* In so far as this series has been examined,
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