. Acadian geology : the geological structure, organic remains, and mineral resources of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Geology -- New Brunswick; Geology -- Nova Scotia; Geology -- Prince Edward Island; Paleontology -- New Brunswick; Paleontology -- Nova Scotia; Paleontology -- Prince Edward Island. SUBMAKINE FORESTS. 29 mixed with nuul, which intervenes between the slope of mud already mentioned and the level of low tide. Beyond the stump first seen, and extending to a depth of at least 30 to 35 feet below the level of high tide, other stumps were irregularly scattered a
. Acadian geology : the geological structure, organic remains, and mineral resources of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Geology -- New Brunswick; Geology -- Nova Scotia; Geology -- Prince Edward Island; Paleontology -- New Brunswick; Paleontology -- Nova Scotia; Paleontology -- Prince Edward Island. SUBMAKINE FORESTS. 29 mixed with nuul, which intervenes between the slope of mud already mentioned and the level of low tide. Beyond the stump first seen, and extending to a depth of at least 30 to 35 feet below the level of high tide, other stumps were irregularly scattered as in an open wood. The lowest stump seen was 135 paces beyond the first; and between it and the water level there was a space of 170 paces without stumps, but with scattered fragments of roots and trunks, which may have belonged to rooted trees broken up and swept away by the ice (Fig- 6). Fig. 6.—Submarine Forest.—Fort LEVEL or L OW (a) Marsh. {b) Soil with rooted stumps. (c) Mud and Stones. On digging under and around some of the stumps, they were found to be rooted in a soil having all the characters of forest soil. In one phxce it was a reddish sandy loam, like the ordinary upland of Fort Lawrence: in another place it was a black vegetable soil resting on a white sandy subsoil. Immediately over the soil were the remains of a layer of tough bluish clay, with a few vegetable fibres, apparently rootlets of gi-asscs, which seemed to have been the first layer of marsh mud deposited over the upland soil. All the rootlets of the stumps were entire and covered with their bark, and the appearances were perfectly conclusive as to their being in the place of their growth (Fig. 7). Fig. 7.—Stumj) of Beech in the Submarine Forest. gaerjg ss ; vxT £:^ s £ t: (rt) Mud. {b} Vegetable soil. (c) Loamy subsoil. Of thirty or forty stumps which I examined, the greater number were pine {Pinus strobus), but a few were beech [Fagus ferruginea); and it is worthy of note that thes
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