VIII.—FossIts, PossIBLy TRIASSIC, IN GLACIATED FRAGMENTS 
IN THE BOULDER-CLAY OF Kines County, N. S.—By 
ProFEssOR Ernest Haycock, Acadia College, Wolf- 
ville, N..S. 
(Received for publication, 18th December, 1901.) 
The belt of red Triassic sandstones that extends from St. 
Mary’s Bay to Truro, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, 
has not as yet yielded any fossils 
It has, for several years, seemed to me unlikely that living 
things were absent throughout this region when this great series 
of water-formed beds, often showing ripple-marks and current- 
bedding, was being laid down. It has seemed equally improba- 
bly that at no time or place were the conditions favorable for 
the preservation of the remains of those living things, if they 
were present. For these reasons I have believed that such 
remains exist and are likely to be discovered if carefully 
searched for. 
In many of the finer layers of the red sandstone where it 
forms bare red cliffs along the north shore of St. Mary’s Bay at 
Rossway, occur spherical greenish-gray blotches with a black 
central spot, which vary in size from minute specks to spheres 
an inch in diameter. They appear to be due to the original 
presence of some organism, the carbon of which has been oxi- 
dized from the red oxide of iron which forms the coloring 
matter of the beds, producing soluble compounds which have 
been removed, leaving a bleached zone surrounding the former 
position of the organism. 
In beds of the same formation near Pereau, Kings County, 
the same bleached spheres were noticed in the sandstone, at 
about the same stratigraphical horizon, taking the surface of 
contact with the overlying trap as a datum line. 
When examining, Jast summer, the splendid coast section 
along the southwest side of Minas Basin between Kingsport and 
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