. 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. STRUCTURE OF THE COAL-FIELD OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 229 patch of mictaceous red sandstone, which appears to be an outlier of the New Red Sandstone of Prince Edward Island. Bay Verte presents anot'.ier slight synclinal undulation, continuous apparently with that which apjjcars at Dorchester Ferry; and south of this is the anticlinal which brings up the Lower Carb
. 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. STRUCTURE OF THE COAL-FIELD OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 229 patch of mictaceous red sandstone, which appears to be an outlier of the New Red Sandstone of Prince Edward Island. Bay Verte presents anot'.ier slight synclinal undulation, continuous apparently with that which apjjcars at Dorchester Ferry; and south of this is the anticlinal which brings up the Lower Carboniferous limestones of Nortliern Cumberland, and which limits the coal trough of the Joggins in Nova Scotia. The coast section above described, as given in Professor Robb's manuscripts, is included in the general section attached to the map, to which the reader is referred. It would appear from this section, compared with those farther inland, as, for example, in the vicinity of Frcderickton, that in the northern and western part of the New Brunswick coal area the Lower Carbon- iferous Formation is little developed, except in the form of grits and conglomerates; and that the greatest development of the calcareous members of the Lower Carboniferous and of the Lower Carboniferous Coal measures occurs in the southern part of the area, the principal exception being the occurrence of limestone and gypsum in theTobique outlier. The same deficiency occurs in Nova Scotia on the northern side of the Cobequid Hills, In the next place, in so far as ascertained, the Coal formation proper appears in New Brunswick to have a less thickness than in Nova Scotia, and to include only two principal coal groups—one near the base, and the other near the summit. To the former, I refer the coals of the coast near Bathurst, of Richebucto, and of the vicinity of Frcderickton, unless, indeed, the upper members of the series there overlap and conceal the lower; to the latter, those of Miramichi, a
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