. 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. CARBONIFEROUS DISTRICT OF COLCHESTER AND HANTS. 257 rIso curious little pairs of oval impressions of the character of those found in tlio Silurian rocks of Canada and New York, and formerly f i„ ao.—Bmkhnttet •*'"PPOsed to be fucoids, to which the name RusO' carboiiarius—Halt- pfiycus vfas applied. Regarding them, for reasons way liiver. stated in a p
. 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. CARBONIFEROUS DISTRICT OF COLCHESTER AND HANTS. 257 rIso curious little pairs of oval impressions of the character of those found in tlio Silurian rocks of Canada and New York, and formerly f i„ ao.—Bmkhnttet •*'"PPOsed to be fucoids, to which the name RusO' carboiiarius—Halt- pfiycus vfas applied. Regarding them, for reasons way liiver. stated in a paper on the subject publislied in the Canadian Naturalist, to be burrows of Trilobites or other crustaceans, I have proposed for them the name Ruakhnites, and have described the present sjjecies as R. carbonarius (Fig. 80). These and the worm-tracks above mentioned are best seen at Halfway River, between Horton and Windsor. No coal has been found in these rocks. It is evident that in the section above described, we have the occur- rence, in the very lowest part of the Carboniferous system, of beds very similar to the Middle Coal formation as it occurs in Cumberland, though sufficiently distinct in their mineral characters and association of fossils to prevent us from confounding the two ; an error which has, however, been committed by some of the earlier writers on the geology of the country, and has led to much additional confusion. Beds of similar character and age occur at Halfway River, near Windsor, on the St Croix River, at Upper Rawdon, and at the Gore. In all these localities they skirt the base of the slate hills. On the north shore of Hants, they have been thrown up to the surface by an anticlinal bend of the strata, and are seen at Five Mile River, Noel, Teny Cape, and Walton (Fig. 81). In all these places they appear to underlie the great Lower Carboniferous marine limestones. We have observed a similar fact at Hillsborough, and it also occurs in some p
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