. 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 ANTIGONISH COUNTY. 347 ppcav itones and gray sandstone, the latter containing Calamites, Sternbergia, and other Coal formation fossils, and no doubt higher in the series than the beds last mentioned. Near Morristown these beds dip to the , and have been disturbed by a spur of trappean or altered rock, containing kernels of epi
. 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 ANTIGONISH COUNTY. 347 ppcav itones and gray sandstone, the latter containing Calamites, Sternbergia, and other Coal formation fossils, and no doubt higher in the series than the beds last mentioned. Near Morristown these beds dip to the , and have been disturbed by a spur of trappean or altered rock, containing kernels of epidote, and associated with contorted dark shales, probably Lower Carboniferous. Beyond this interruption, the coast shows soft reddish sandstones and shales, with some beds of gray sandstone and conglomerate, dipping to the at an angle of 50°, and on these rests a bed of limestone nearly 100 feet thick; in its lower portion laminated, the laminae being occasionally broken up so as to give it a fragmentary or brecciated appearance; in its upper part compact, and penetrated by small gypsum veins. On this lime- stone rests a rock consisting of alternate layers of limestone and gypsum, above which is a great thickness of pure flesh-coloured crystalline gypsum, and on this again, white laminated fine-grained gypsum, with minute grains of carbonate of lime. The whole thick- ness of the gypsum is about 200 feet, and it forms a beautiful cliff fronting the sea (Fig. 138). Fig. 138.—Cliff of Cryatalline Gyj)»umnear Ogden't Lake, Sydney This gypsum and limestone can be traced with scarcely any inter- ruption to the village of Antlgonish, about five miles distant, where the same beds are seen in the banks of Right's River. Near the mouth of this river, at the head of Antigonish Harbour, is a thick bed of white gypsum, dipping to the south-west. Succeeding this, in descending order, after a small interval (which appears to have been occupied by sandstones, now nearl
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