. 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. 83 TIIK CAMHUIAN. the nature of those which in Sweden have been named Eophyton and have been described as land plants. They are, however, of ver doubtful origin, and in my judgment more aliin to those trails < aquatic animals which I have named Rhabdiclinitcs. Tliis conclusic I arrived at after a careful examination of a very complete suite ( Swedish sp
. 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. 83 TIIK CAMHUIAN. the nature of those which in Sweden have been named Eophyton and have been described as land plants. They are, however, of ver doubtful origin, and in my judgment more aliin to those trails < aquatic animals which I have named Rhabdiclinitcs. Tliis conclusic I arrived at after a careful examination of a very complete suite ( Swedish specimens in London in 1870. Still, these markings ai very characteristic of certain Cambrian beds. They are, for cxampl abundant on the surfaces of the slates of the Acadian group at !; John. Professor Hind has also discovered in the quartzites of th group certain nodular bodies and markings which Mr Billinj; referred with doubt to the genus Eospangia and to casts of Ortlii The latter I have not seen, but Professor Hind has very kindl guided me to a bed near the Waverlcy Gold Mine, on the surftxce ( which there are great numbers of the former fossils. As appcarin on the weathered surface of the rock, they consist of little ov; depressions surrounded by a raised ridge from which radiate number of raised lines sometimes bifurcating. These lines appear 1 represent radiating plates or lamellas rather than rods. They are < various sizes, from an inch to six or seven inches in diameter, onl the larger ones having the rays well developed. They j)rescnt ii structure or evidence of organic matter, except that the centi has a brownish colour, as if from the oxidation of iron, and that i some specimens, differently preserved from the others, the rays alf show a rusty colour. The most natural interpretation of these forn would seem to be that they consist of a central axis or central cavif surrounded with vertical radiating plates, sometimes splitting in two toward the circumference
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